Chapter 397: The Beginning of Assimilation
The canonization ceremony is very solemn, but mainly symbolic.
The Narrow-Sided Emperor has been defeated and disarmed, and tens of millions of Narrow-minded people are waiting eagerly for the Empire's rescue, not to mention canonizing the Narrow-Emperor, even if the Narrow-Emperor is abolished, it is only a little more troublesome, such as the need to invest more troops to suppress possible riots.
In any case, in the hearts of the Sayi people, the Saohuang is the spokesman of the gods and the supreme ruler of the Sagi Imperial State.
It is not difficult to abolish the Narrow Emperor, or even destroy the Narrow Imperial Family, but it is a thankless task to suppress possible riots.
According to the speculation made by the Sixth Bureau and other intelligence agencies, if the Sato-emperor and the Sakuyi imperial family were forcibly abolished, nationwide riots and riots would definitely break out. Even if sufficient troops were to be invested, it would take at least half a year and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers to be sacrificed before the situation in the Imperial Kingdom of Satoyi could basically return to normal.
Six months of unrest would kill between 5 million and 10 million civilians, most of them from starvation and disease.
Moreover, the 70 million narrow-minded people are not useless.
Historically, the Narrows have played a huge role in the empire's external expansion, not only fueling the flames, but also in many cases being the vanguard.
That's just one point: the narrow-minded people are particularly able to endure hardship.
At the beginning, after seizing the Northern Malaysia Islands, because the environment was too harsh, and they had to face very unfriendly natives, there were even cannibals on several large islands, and the key was that there were no valuable resources worth risking, so the colonists of the empire were reluctant to go, and the result was that the narrow-minded people took the lead.
Then, in less than two decades, the industrious people of the Narrows reclaimed wasteland and built plantations on several major islands.
By the time of the last war, quinine and natural rubber from the Northern Malaysian Islands accounted for 40% of the empire's total imports.
The same is true of the islands around the Flame Sea.
After that, even when they arrived in Fanyanyang and Xuanda, the Narrows also rushed to the front, going to those places where the imperial colonists were unwilling to go to reclaim the wasteland.
In addition, there were many narrow-minded people who were engaged in dirty and tiring low-end jobs in the empire itself.
For example, the two roads leading from the southwest and northwest of the empire to the Wuji Plateau were the most difficult sections of the road that were built by the engineering team of the Imperial Empire. Although there are no exact statistics, the bones of at least thousands of parsial laborers are buried on both sides of the Southwestern Highway, many of which have not even survived.
According to a recorded tunnel collapse, about 1,000 narrow laborers were buried alive.
Even decades later, the bones of narrow laborers are often found near the highway.
In fact, this is also a major reason why the Sayi Imperial Kingdom has a grudge against the Liang Xia Empire.
It took hard work and made great sacrifices, but the Narrow Empire often didn't even have the opportunity to drink soup, and in many cases even ranked behind the High Giant Kingdom, which would only pat at the horse, for example, the tariffs imposed by the empire on narrow goods have always been twice as high as those of other vassal states.
For decades, it was strange that people did not have resentment.
During the last war, when declaring war on the Empire, one of the main reasons given by the Narrow Empire was that it was ruthlessly oppressed by the Empire.
Of course, that's history.
After a circle of reincarnation, it does not mean that there will be changes after the struggle of the Narrow Imperial Kingdom.
After the canonization of the Sasa Emperor, it was the representatives of the governments of the two sides, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet of the Sakuyi Empire, Niu Man, and the Imperial First and Auxiliary Special Envoys to sign a letter of alliance and cooperation agreement.
The key is actually a cooperation agreement.
Although many of them are only frameworks and do not involve specific arrangements, there is one exception, and it is related to labor.
Within three months, by the time of the Spring Festival, the Sassani Empire would send 500,000 laborers to the empire.
Because they were sent by the government, the empire only provided the necessary working conditions and basic living security for the narrow laborers, and it is not wrong to say that it was a survival guarantee.
To put it bluntly, it is just food, clothing and shelter, and no remuneration is paid.
Remuneration?
I ask for the narrow government.
According to a later agreement, the Empire calculated the labor income of the parochial laborers at the minimum labor standards of the time, and used it to offset the war reparations.
In addition, the empire would provide 50,000 immigration quotas to the Narrow Empire after the expiration of the two-year labor contract.
However, they only have the right of residence, not political rights.
That's right, this is the very famous "10-for-1 rule".
This criterion lasted until the end of the Great War, when for every 10 laborers sent by the Sayi Empire, one place to immigrate to the Liangxia Empire was granted.
In the first few years, almost all of these places went to the dignitaries of the Narrow Empire, and some of them were sold on the black market. It was not until the last two years, after the intervention of the imperial authorities, that there was a standardized operation, with labor drawing lots.
According to incomplete statistics, during the entire war, the Narrow-Empire received a total of about 3 million immigrant quotas.
In other words, during the Great War, the Sagai Imperial Kingdom sent 30 million laborers to the empire!
In fact, during the war, the total number of laborers exported by the Imperial State was between 12 million and 15 million.
In order to immigrate to the empire, more than two-thirds of the parochial laborers signed two labor contracts, some even three times!
In exchange for these 3 million immigration places, the lives of about 1.2 million narrow laborers were gained.
During the war, especially in the first four years, all the laborers were sent to the most difficult conditions.
For example, of the first batch of 500,000 narrow laborers who came to the Liangxia Empire, about 300,000 went to the northwest, and the other 200,000 were sent to the southwest.
These petty laborers had only one job: building roads and railways.
In the Northwest Battlefield, where the Imperial Army advanced, the Narrow Labor Army built the roads and was responsible for keeping the railways and roads open.
In the rainforests of the Toe Peninsula, narrow laborers built bridges over mountains and rivers, filling in many swamps and clearing large tracts of arable land.
Of the 500,000 laborers, at least 150,000 are buried in unmarked cemeteries near the construction site.
However, it also means that their wives do not have to remarry, their children can grow up, and their parents will not starve and freeze.
With a bit of luck, their loved ones also have the chance to gain permanent residency in the paradisiacal empire.
When the Western Sasashi regime began recruiting laborers to work in the empire a few months ago, 3 million people signed up in just a few days.
After careful selection, the first list of 500,000 workers was determined.
If anything, the probability of surviving to work in the Empire is much higher than being sent to the front.
At least at the time, if you joined the National Guard, became an ordinary soldier, and then went to the front line in the central part of the island, there was basically no return.
Previously, because there was no war with the Luosha Empire, and the operation on the Toe Peninsula had not begun, the imperial authorities did not plan to recruit narrow laborers.
With the outbreak of war, especially in the northwest and southwest, a large number of works had to be completed as soon as possible, and the construction of roads alone required a large number of laborers, so the matter of recruiting laborers was put on the agenda, and this cooperation agreement was made to officially recruit laborers from the Sashiyi Imperial State.
If it is to be said, this was also the beginning of the gradual assimilation of the Imperial State of Sakuyi.
When tens of millions of people came to the Liangxia Empire to participate in the work, saw the prosperity and strength of the Liangxia Empire, when 3 million people immigrated to the Liangxia Empire, lived a stable and prosperous life, and reused the Liangxia script, can even the Narrowish Emperor, who has knelt down and become a vassal, still maintain its independence?