67. Integration
In February, the weather on land is the season of spring flowers, but the sea is still bitterly cold.
This is Edo Bay, where the base of the 3rd Fleet of the Northern Fleet of the Datang Navy is located.
The conquest of the Wa Kingdom was actually easier than the settlement of Goryeo, and the Imperial Navy fleet only shelled the port once in Wakayama, and the Fujiwara family obediently handed over the Heian Kingdom lord and canceled the name of the country.
This made Li Qidu feel very surprised.
Come to think of it, the Japanese people have always had a tradition of worshipping the strong, and the more you beat them, the more convinced they are. If you think that Perry only brought four broken steam sailboats to let the Japanese open the country, and the statue of him has always stood at the gate of the naval academy, you can know how cheap he is. Now the reverence for the Tang Dynasty is still deep in the bones of the Japanese people who have just transformed from primitive people, where will there be any thoughts of resistance.
The obedience of the Japanese and the Goryeo people was very good, and the recruited tuntianhu were very popular with the military in the Western Regions, unlike those wild people on the island of Foshi in the South Seas, who were lazy and stupid, and there were even cannibals.
The aristocracy of the Wa Kingdom all knew Chinese characters, and although there were some problems with language communication, there were not many obstacles to using written characters to communicate.
In this devastated place, apart from silver and sulfur mines, there are few important minerals, but the grain production is quite abundant.
The Japanese are very small, with an average height of only a little more than one meter and four, so the tens of thousands of Tang troops stationed here have become the target of the Japanese people, not only taking the initiative to marry their daughters to the barracks, but even sending their own women to "borrow seeds". Suddenly, stationing in the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo became a benefit for the Tang military.
The Wa Kingdom was not a single entity, with the two large islands to the south being the Kumatsu people, the Waka people being the Waka people, and the Ezo people further north. Comparatively speaking, the Waka people are now more civilized, while the bear raiders are much more savage, and as for the Ezo people, they are basically the same as the wild people.
The Tang Dynasty's immigrant garrison in the Japanese Kingdom not only undertook the task of educating the natives, but also needed to continue to explore and open up to the north.
The Navy, in particular, has now established a supply depot on Qianshan Island, north of the North Island.
The globe produced by Luoyang Academy is basically very accurate, but the problem is that the navy's exploration does not dare to take too many risks and is gradually moving forward.
At present, the navy explored three directions: the Northern Fleet explored northward along the island chain of the Japanese Kingdom, the Eastern Fleet explored and explored the southeastern area of Luzon, and the Southern Fleet continued to conquer the various parts of Foshi after conquering Chenla.
The sea is vast, and it is a little fresh at first, but looking at it for a long time will make it monotonous and hopeless.
Tang Ping and Huo Xunming's main work during this period was to change the ethnic ratio in the territory of the Wa Kingdom.
To put it bluntly, it is to carry out a major blood exchange, recruit these dwarves to the Western Regions and the northern grasslands to carry out the tuntian, and then recruit a large number of singles from the country to implement military tuntian in the Wa country. This was a plan that everyone was happy with, the Japanese people met their expectations of surviving on the mainland and improving their height, while the Tang people achieved the goal of balancing the racial ratio and stabilizing the place.
All brothers in the four seas!
This is what the Tang Dynasty Son of Heaven said, the high-level hope to dilute the distinction between Huayi and Yi, and all over the world, as long as they live in the territory of the empire, are all Tang people.
Datang people naturally want to speak Datang dialect, this is the consensus.
As for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage, that is the job of historians and humanists.
The government's policies must not be influenced by them.
Besides, if these things don't die, how can they show the value of these scholars?
It is undeniable that in the current Wa Kingdom, if the strength of those nobles is united, it still occupies a great advantage. After all, they turned out to be the masters of this land, even if the Tang Army was very strong, but after all, they were foreign colonists. At this time, what the Yingzhou Metropolitan Hu Kangping had to do was to pull these nobles of the Wa Kingdom into the bureaucratic system of the Tang Dynasty, and then constantly weaken their influence, strengthen the strength of the garrisons in various places, and finally let the influence of the Tang Dynasty dominate.
The Imperial Navy was in charge of Xia Chengting and the Northern Fleet were both commanding Huo Xunming, and they strongly opposed the appointment of such a spy leader by the imperial high-level to serve as the protector of Yingzhou, but the two were called in front of the emperor and scolded them bitterly.
What Kangping did was to first recruit a large number of wandering Japanese people, organize them into the garrison army to reclaim the land and grow grain, and then transfer these garrison troops who had learned to obey orders to the northern grasslands or the Western Regions in the name of changing the defense area, and then use the Tang people recruited from the interior to fill the vacancies left by these people after the transfer.
When these Japanese people return to the country after the 20-year rotation period of Tuntian in the north expires, I am afraid that they have already forgotten the so-called local sound and have become a complete Tang Dynasty.
Except for the aristocracy, most of the Japanese people did not have surnames, and when they were incorporated into the military households, the officers would randomly attach a surname to them, sometimes it was the officers' own surname, but sometimes some traces could still be seen from the names. For example, the Japanese people are accustomed to using numbers as names, although this habit is also common among the Tang people, but it is not common.
Through publicity, the main thing is to yearn for the "sexual blessing life" of the Japanese land, and for a while, "Tuntian Dongying" has become a trend. This is the result that Li Qi is looking forward to, gradually changing the demographic composition of this land.
In fact, the same is true in the Western Regions.
For the long-term stability of the Tang Dynasty, this large-scale immigration exchange is necessary. The Central Asians went to the interior, and the Tang people went to the Western Regions, and this planned arrangement would speed up the process of integration of the various ethnic groups. In the process, many of the original tribal rulers gradually disappeared and were replaced by the well-educated New Tang people.
The steamer from Songjiang to Edo took three days at sea, which was actually closer than the sea route to Gukou.
Some private merchant groups also began the process of their expansion in the Wa Kingdom, but their expansion in the Wa Kingdom was severely restricted by the imperial court. The land and estates that have been developed are not privately owned, but can only be rented for farming.
There are also strict restrictions on the development of Nanyang.
Communal ownership of land was one of the strictest policies implemented by the upper echelons of the empire.
This fundamentally inhibited the development of the powerful forces of local landlords.
A fleet of immigrants slowly docked at Edo Port, and as a sailor, Keiji Yanagi stood on the pier with a smile and waved his hands, like a brother welcoming the return.
The ship leaned on the concrete stone pier, Liu Jinger commanded his men to build the trestle, and the captain Zeng Guohao got down from the trestle, and then couldn't wait to shout to him: "Jinger, prepare a woman for Lao Tzu......"
Liu Jingji bowed with a smile and asked, "The sixteen of the eight families feel that the Admiral is dignified, can you work hard, and the remuneration is satisfactory to you!" ”
Zeng Guohao thought for a while: "Lao Tzu's seeds are very expensive, don't even think about it without five silver dollars......
……
:。 :