Chapter 281: Colonial Plunder
In the next few days, Lin Ji began to implement his idea of opening up his voice. During his vacation in Hot Water Village, in addition to participating in various activities arranged before, he also tried to get close to the people of various groups at other times, listening to everyone's work reports, gossiping with everyone, guessing their attitudes towards various things, and so on.
When encountering various problems in their work or life, they can be guided to solve them in person, and if they can't be guided in person, let the secretary record them, and seek solutions to the problems after they go back.
In the past few days, the foreign policy towards Chaling and other tribes to the west has also been decided after step-by-step deliberations.
The overall programme can be summed up in two words: colonization.
The guiding ideology is that because the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are located in the projection areas behind the coins, those places and the wider world in the northwest must also be the territory of China. Before there was no military campaign against those places in China for ten or twenty years, it was possible to maintain friendly relations with them, export ideas and concepts to them, and prepare for the kingdom's rule.
The specific measure was to refer to the imperialist practices of later generations, and use some exquisite and magical objects to exchange a few plains, estuaries, or potential mines in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the kingdom sent a small number of immigrants to build in advance, and then hired local aborigines, including the Chaling people, to labor.
While exploiting their labor, they cultivate their consumption and life concepts, etc., and then continue to plunder their output and various resources and their population with the products of Chaolin.
After the plan was decided, the people of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce carefully planned it.
After Lin Ji returned from Hot Water Village, he set every Friday afternoon as the king's reception time. During this time, he would receive visits from the kingdom in a room at the back door of the palace. When there are not many people, there is a queue, and when there are many people, there is a draw.
Before the start of the visit, the secretary will ask everyone what they want to talk about and then set a time for everyone. It is only a courtesy visit to the king, and it can only be seen for five minutes. Come with dissatisfaction and complain, ten minutes. If there is a technical problem or team dilemma that needs to be solved, 15 minutes. If the third problem is not resolved within fifteen minutes, he may be summoned by the king again sometime next week.
As soon as this visit day began, the elders from all over the country rushed to Chaolin City to visit Lin Ji, pulling him to chatter, all kinds of bittersweet memories, lamenting all kinds of great changes, and praising all kinds of great achievements of Lin Ji. Later statistics show that people's nonsense mostly indicates a happier life. For these people, Lin Ji would persuade them to stop them during the time of the meeting, and then arrange dinner in the palace for them to continue chattering. By the way, I introduced them to Hu Yi'er Lin Meng and the son named Lin Ping'an.
As soon as this kind of open day opened, it was also regarded as opening another way of public supervision, and many people ran to Lin Ji to complain, saying how the village and town officials were doing their power, and after Lin Ji sent people to investigate, they really found that many of them were indeed true, so the mine had a lot of manpower.
The Open Day has indeed identified or solved many problems in current development, which has brought a lot of benefits to government affairs and the development of the Kingdom. There are many workshops that have accumulated a lot of questions because they usually can't ask Lin Ji at all, so they take this opportunity to come to Lin Ji to ask for advice. Some of the detours were directly rejected by the forest, and some projects were soon supported by huge resources. The kingdom gradually became more comprehensive in all its aspects.
At the beginning of the seventh year of China, the colonization plan for the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River began to be implemented.
From the Jinghu area to the west of the Three Gorges, Huaxia exchanged a total of three pieces of land that could be used as a stronghold through exchange.
The first is at the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River, which is located west of the mountain of Chaolin. Katsu used a solar-powered rechargeable lamp to move from a tribe of 4,000 people to 300 square kilometers of land. Originally, it was only to be exchanged for 200 square kilometers. However, after the leader of that tribe saw that the charging table lamp could be lit without burning oil, he directly waved his hand and gave an extra piece of land on the bank of the river, which was more than 100 square kilometers.
For them, fat is a precious food, and it is a luxury to burn it. It is even less worth spending money to change whale oil from Huaxia. Therefore, the pottery oil lamps of Huaxia are not very popular in these places. This amazing oil-free lamp is clearly more in line with their needs.
After the emergence of the forest-exterminating tribe in the Jinghu area, there were constant wars, and a large amount of land was unhunted, and two or three hundred square kilometers of land was nothing to this tribe of four or five thousand people. In fact, after the exterminating tribes brought in high-yielding crops such as corn over the years, their hunting range has been greatly reduced.
Sprinkle corn into the ground casually, pull out a little grass in the middle of the year, and basically don't be afraid of no food in autumn and winter.
In the swamp west of Jinghu, the Shenglin and Chaling tribes also exchanged a piece of land of one or two hundred square kilometers. However, the people of Chaling are more pragmatic. All they need is metal tools. So these two hundred square kilometers were exchanged with almost hundreds of knives and axes, which made Shenglu feel distressed for a long time.
This place was called Jingzhou by forest traces. This is the place where future generations of soldiers will fight. Occupy this place, and you can develop in any direction from east, west, north, south, and north.
The third stronghold, Katsu Scale, wants to exchange the Kuimen area. Ever since that place spread in the city, many people in Chaolin City had the idea of going to see it. So much so that after the Yangtze River melted in the spring, a number of Three Gorges tourism fever arose in Chaolin City. Although only a few hundred people made the trip in the end, under the publicity of these hundreds of people, this scenic spot has a faint trend of becoming a holy place.
If Katsu Scales could exchange this place back, he would undoubtedly become a hero of the kingdom.
But his idea was met with fierce opposition from the local tribe called Baxia. It almost broke out into a fierce conflict because of this. Seeing that something was wrong, Sheng Liang hurriedly retreated to the second, as long as there was a small place not far away that could be used as a port, and repaired the relationship between the two sides with heavy gifts, he got the understanding of the Baxia tribe. The Chinese were allowed to visit their shrine in Kuimen in the future.
For this reason, Shenglu was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and after returning to the city, he kept lobbying around, saying that as long as he gave him three hundreds, he could destroy this Ba Xia, which only had 2,000 people, and put the entire holy land under the name of the kingdom. But the matter ended with being reprimanded by the arc.
As soon as it began to provoke war, the initiative of China in the northwest was lost. At the same time, it is not in the interest of the Government Council. Moreover, that place is not less than a thousand kilometers away from Chaolin, and there is no output, and there is no actual benefit if you get it. It is naturally inappropriate to provoke a war at this time.
In the spring of that year, the leader of the Zongmu people was willing to take the blame for five of his men, and let five of them return to Chaling. In the summer of that year, Katsu returned from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and brought back visitors from Chaling to visit the leaders of the Zongmu people.
This group of people came with great momentum, and the number was a staggering two hundred.
The leader of this group is also a long-eyed man, but a young woman. This woman named Qi Zhu has big eyes, a high nose, a pointed chin, a nose painted with red, blue and white oil paint, her hair is tied into several braids, and a large string of Chinese copper coins is used as a pendant.
If she suddenly appeared in front of Shengscale, Shengscale might be frightened. But this woman is very confident in her appearance, and she has a high self-confidence in everything she says and does, which is really unbearable.
But this woman did have a reputation in Chaling, and the remaining 200 people looked at her as the horse's head, so Shenglu had to endure the discomfort and endure patiently.
To Katsu Scale's delight, even such nobles, who were said to be from the land without salt, still showed the surprise of the savages entering the city after entering the territory of Huaxia. This also allowed Shenglu to regain his self-confidence, and along the way, he asked his subordinates to emphasize the various inadmissibility after entering Huaxia with these Chaling people.
A group of three sailing boats approached the east gate of Chaolin City from Gouhu Lake in the east, but the boat did not reach the city, so Qi Zhu and the others went to the side of the ship to watch. As the ship approached the pier, the walls became more and more towering.
Qi Zhu rolled his eyes that were already turned outward, squinted his eyes and asked Sheng Scale, "You live on these cliffs?" ”
They have built their own villages, and they have made stone or wood walls. When they were fighting against the forest exterminating tribes, they had also seen the so-called wall. But compared with the city walls of Chaolin, they all look too unseemly. When Qi Zhu saw these city walls, the first thing that came to his mind was not the walls, but the cliffs that nature had worked on.
The people who went back may have told her what the city wall is, but how can she know anything about things she has not seen?
Katsu Scales suddenly understood why the leader of the Vertical Eyes in Autumn had run to the city wall instead when he saw the castle tower. Because in his opinion, maybe the walls are shorter and easier to climb.
"In fact, we live behind these cliffs." Katsu was glad to see that Qi Zhu had this misunderstanding, and he didn't mean to explain.
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