Section 308 The Dark Side of Chinese Civilization (4)
These Han people are completely different from the Han people in China, after a generation of fusion, they have half Hui blood, but they stubbornly retain their own culture, and the Han people who have land to cultivate insist on cultivating and reading the tradition of family heirlooms. The Ferghana Basin, where Han Baqi lived, had become increasingly crowded, and the tradition of farming and reading heirlooms was becoming more and more untenable.
In Persia, which had just experienced war and had never been cut off for thousands of years, there was a lot of wasteland that could be cultivated, and much of it was even fertile land with good irrigation facilities during the Persian Empire.
The population of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty in the Fergana Basin is more than 3 million, each Niulu has 300 people, there are a total of tens of thousands of Niulu, and each banner has more than 1,000 Niulu, this kind of quasi-military management, the mobilization ability is very strong, Daoguang ordered, each banner out of 300 Niulu, nearly 100,000 people, 800,000 people moved into the territory of Persia to open up wasteland, send craftsmen to repair ancient water conservancy facilities, and actively resume production. And this method appeared in the land of Persia, which can be traced back to the period of black-clothed food in the Tang Dynasty.
Sadly, the introduction of the Eight Banners system has taken on a progressive significance in today's Persia.
Zhou Lang had always wondered why Central Asia and Africa were both pioneered by the remnants of the Manchus, but one implemented the Eight Banners system and the other implemented the wrapping system, and both abandoned the other Manchu system.
At first, Zhou Lang thought that the slavery system of Baoyi must be the most backward, and it was Jiaqing who consciously abandoned this system, and later he received the exact news that there were no measures to abolish the Baoyi system within the Manchu Dynasty, and there were still a large number of Baoyi, but the number was too much worse than that of Africa, and it did not account for the mainstream, and only a few powerful families had Baoyi, and ordinary middle- and lower-class banner people did not have the ability to support Baoyi at all.
This is not the case in Africa, where there is a lot of land resources, and the black people have a very low degree of social organization, and it is easy to plunder the black people for clothing, and then force them to cultivate a large amount of land, from the perspective of productivity, this model is the most efficient, if the small peasant economy is implemented among the black people, I am afraid that it will not be possible to form a mature agricultural society for many years.
Similarly, neither Delentai nor Su Chong'a took any measures to abolish the Eight Banners, and the Eight Banners organization was dispersed by the ever-expanding slavery system, and a large number of non-banner slave owners quickly replaced the banner people, and the banner slave owners were integrated and assimilated.
After comparing the development of the two remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Africa and Central Asia, Zhou Lang had some insights. He found that Central Asia was an old society, where a large number of residents lived under the old order, their social hierarchy was higher, and there had been or at least a state form, so to improve productivity here, the only way to organize manpower was to use a more efficient organizational model, and the Eight Banners system was more efficient than the local nomadic system, so it slowly replaced the local loose tribal system.
However, in Africa, there is no mature high-level and social system, and blacks have just left the clan society, and most of them have not even entered the tribal society, which is still far from the state (tribal union). Therefore, slavery is an improvement in terms of the development of local society. The improvement of social level is not only related to the level of productivity, so the coating system of Eight Flags has successfully taken root and developed because it has just taken a step forward in African society and has not been unacceptable and understandable to local residents.
It is also related to cultural development and historical advancement, black people do not have a relatively developed cultural cognition and national identity, so it is easy to transform into slaves. However, the coating system in Central Asia could not be implemented, and the steppe peoples who advocated freedom could hardly accept the result of being enslaved, and a large number of people fled, so that the coating system gradually disappeared.
Not only Zhou Lang studied the development of Manchu power in Africa and Central Asia, but also Europeans studied more, especially in recent years, with the opening of the Suez Canal, their attention to the Kingdom of South Africa began to pay close attention, and with the expansion of the Jiaqing period to the Indus Valley, the British also cared more about the Manchu Empire.
But Europeans interpret these conditions not in terms of productivity, nor in terms of culture, but in terms of race and civilization.
Either with strong malice, or if they really think so, they contrast the two remnants of the Manchu Qing with China, and they both admit that the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that have been sinicized are the spread of Chinese civilization. Just as Westerners recognize the United States as part of the Anglo-Saxon civilization in Britain.
Because of the rudeness, barbarism and brutality shown by the Americans in the pioneering, the Europeans called the American civilization the bad part of the Anglo-Saxon civilization, which would have completed the primitive accumulation, abandoned the slave trader and pirate professions, and began to call the English civilization that dressed itself up more and more as a gentleman the good part of the Anglo-Saxon civilization, and the theory of explanation is far-fetched, saying that the ancestors of the Americans were mainly scum abandoned by the British, the descendants of those exiled prisoners and prostitutes.
Now Westerners also refer to the Eight Banners Empire in Central Asia and the slave empire in South Africa as the bad side of Chinese civilization and the good side of Chinese civilization as China with the participation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Zhou Lang doesn't care at all whether the Eight Banners Empire in Central Asia and the slave empire in South America are the bad side of Chinese civilization, and he doesn't even care if they are Chinese civilization, what he cares about is whether these two forces can be used by me, if not, whether there is a threat, if there is no threat, you can throw it into the trash, if there is a threat, you must strike at it as soon as possible.
At present, there are some gaps between the two countries in terms of political system and social level, but economically, they are both dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, and industry and commerce are backward, which is far from being a threat to China, which has begun to industrialize.
As for my use, the South African slave empire was submissive, and its cooperation with African companies brought great benefits to African companies; The Eight Banners Empire has always had a respectful attitude towards China, but it is also basically dependent on China for trade, after all, in the past they could only do business with China.
But this level of use for me is becoming less and less valuable to China, which has an increasingly large economy.
Zhou Lang needed them to make a bigger conquest, such as to cooperate with China's military expansion. There was no chance before, but now the opportunity has come, the Greek War of Independence is coming to an end, China needs to show its presence in the surrounding areas, and the closest to the Ottoman Empire is the Eight Banners Empire, which has just swallowed Persia; The closest to Europe was the South African slave empire.
Finally, through the African company and the European company, the two remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were proposed to cooperate!