Section 202 Exile of the bereaved

Zhou Lang's proposed method of retaining the Manchu temple was simple, let Jiaqing emigrate with people who were willing to follow him, and go to other places to build another Great Qing State.

In this way, the temple of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is still there, the Sheji of the Manchu Dynasty is still there, and his ancestors can also eat the blood food offered by filial sons and grandsons.

In fact, everyone has the instinct to survive, and Jiaqing only needs a reason, a strong reason to live.

Otherwise, it would be really difficult for him, a king of the dead country, to convince himself to survive in the world.

So he was like Chen Zhouquan, exiled, and he was willing to do it, thinking that he was going to open up a new foundation.

Unlike the place where Chen Zhouquan was exiled, Zhou Lang did not exile Jiaqing to North America, but directly sent them to Africa to help the African black brothers improve their culture.

The Manchu courtiers were not lagging behind, at least compared to their Chinese contemporaries, who were traditionally educated intellectuals and had a much higher level of cultural development than Africa.

As for whether the Manchu monarchs and ministers could establish a Black Eight Banners Empire on the wild African road, Zhou Lang didn't care. Anyway, these Sinicized Manchus, no matter what, represent Chinese culture going out, and the land they opened up, if it is valuable, will also be used by Chinese in the future.

Chen Zhouquan's casualties in colonizing North America were too great, and it was better to let them colonize and pioneer than to let these Manchu and Han civil and military soldiers be killed in the war.

In addition, Jiaqing's departure from China alive has many unexpected effects. Every time the dynasty changes, there is a group of people who pretend to be nostalgic for their homeland, do nothing all day long, and ridicule the dynasty in a weird way, affecting harmony. Let Jiaqing leave China alive and go to Africa. Then there will be enough strong reasons to tell those who are old and young that since it is finally your emperor, then go and emigrate, and open the country to welcome you to be loyal to the king.

In addition, now through public opinion propaganda, the relationship between braids and the Manchu Qing has been clearly explained to the people, but there are still many people who refuse to cut their braids, and some foolish people are forced to say that they are loyal to the Qing Dynasty? Now it's okay, your emperor is not dead, people have gone to other places to build the Qing Dynasty, loyal ministers and filial sons, your emperor is calling you, go.

It is believed that these people who pay lip service to the cannon will quickly disappear, because few people will leave their homes for the sake of that lip service.

These are all trivial things, a group of mouth-cannon parties, which cannot be achieved in any era, and Zhou Lang is still concerned about practical interests.

He kept Jiaqing alive and went to great lengths to send him to explore the colony, of course, in the hope that he would succeed.

And the price to pay, as much as possible in exchange for a more generous return. Zhou Lang believes that Chen Zhouquan has an average mortality rate when he goes to the Americas with a pleasant climate, and I am afraid that more than half of these children of the Eight Banners can live to the second year on the harsh African continent.

Such an astonishing land in exchange for a statement must be the most valuable land.

Zhou Lang was most interested in Africa, and in his lifetime he had the opportunity to see rich reports, he felt that there was only one, and that was South Africa, because South Africa has gold mines and diamond mines, and they were all discovered by unprofessional shepherds by chance, and obviously they are not buried too deeply. This is where it is possible to bring benefits to Zhou Lang in a few years.

Fortunately, Britain's world hegemony has not yet been established, and there are no solid colonies in Africa, and South Africa now has only one colony, that is, the Cape colony of the Netherlands, which Britain will take from the Dutch after the Napoleonic Wars.

In addition to the Netherlands, those who have colonies in Africa are the Portuguese. They built a port in Kenya, north of South Africa, the port of Maputo, which the Portuguese gave permission to China to use.

This was an agreement between Zhou Lang and Portugal, and in exchange for continuing to allow the Portuguese to live freely in Macao, the Portuguese allowed Chinese merchant ships to use any Portuguese port in the world.

But this was not Zhou Lang's original purpose, Zhou Lang originally hoped to exchange Macau for a colony with the Portuguese, the goal was a colony in Brazil, as long as a small area, Zhou Lang hoped to gain a foothold in Brazil, and then advance to the vast and undeveloped interior of Brazil, and the hinterland of Brazil would basically belong to China in the future. Unfortunately, the Portuguese did not agree, but were willing to exchange Maputo in Africa for Macau. Zhou Lang felt that Africa was not very cost-effective, most of Africa was no man's land, the cost of occupation was very low, and there was no need to exchange Macao for African colonies.

So Macau is still Chinese, as for allowing the Portuguese to live, it is because Zhou Lang opened a large number of seaports, in fact, in every port, he did not refuse Western merchants to do business and live, as long as they can rent houses, they can live as they want.

Of course, the Portuguese still have some privileges, such as in Macau, they used to manage themselves, as long as there is no dispute with the local Chinese, the Chinese government will not care about them. The Portuguese had the right to buy land and build houses, the right to build churches, and even the right to defend themselves, and they maintained an armed force of about 300 men in Macao, as well as a naval force of less than 10 warships.

These powers were slowly grasped by them from the end of the Ming Dynasty, slowly from the inaction of Chinese officials at all levels, Zhou Lang acquiesced to the status quo, of course, if he used national feelings to quell the rebellion, Zhou Lang was a traitor, harming national sovereignty, sovereignty is not negotiable, etc., you can find a lot of reasons to scold him to death.

But Zhou Lang felt that the vast Portuguese colonies had a lot to offer, and with the help of Macau, he could easily establish contacts with Portuguese colonies all over the world, and the grape people with a population of more than one million could not fill the space of those colonies, but the Chinese could. Without arousing the vigilance of the Portuguese, slowly infiltrate, and when the Chinese began to gain an advantage, it was not the Portuguese who had the final say.

Therefore, the immigration negotiations related to the Portuguese are already underway, and Zhou Lang personally takes care of all the details, controls the negotiation process, and tries to fight for greater interests for the Chinese who have migrated to the Portuguese colony, so that they can gain an easier foothold.

As for the colonial immigrants to other countries, Zhou Lang has no interest for the time being, because the immigrants provide labor, which is China's surplus, and the West is in short supply of precious resources, and in the case that there is still vast undeveloped land for colonization, China's precious labor force must of course give priority to the development of its own colonies, after all, the cost of colonial development is too great, at the cost of life.

Chinese go to the British colony to develop, the land is developed, it is British, go to the United States to develop, the land is developed, it is American, but to the Portuguese colony development, the land is developed, it may be Chinese, at least the country has the ability to ensure that the Portuguese do not dare to discriminate against and persecute Chinese immigrants, and even when the Portuguese feel that there are too many Chinese, they can't do it.

The most important thing is that there are not many attractive lands for Zhou Lang in the world, for example, he only values South Africa in Africa, North America is the West Coast region, South America is Brazil, and in other regions, there is only one Australia left that can arouse his interest.

The relevant conditions were quickly negotiated with Jiaqing, and some special requirements of Jiaqing were met as much as possible. For example, Jiaqing was not worried about Da Zhou and asked them to carry weapons, and Zhou Lang agreed. Jiaqing also asked to go to sea to pay homage to the imperial tomb once, and Zhou Lang also agreed. Jiaqing asked to take away their family members who had fled all over the country, and Zhou Lang also took over the Ying.

Jiaqing's request is actually not too much, it is nothing more than a hope to gain a sense of security and hope for reunion. They didn't mention the excessive demands, because letting them go to other places to build a state, which would also be the best ending for them.

As for the place of exile, the envoy told them to go to Kunlun Nu in order to make it understandable to these Manchu civil and military men who had little knowledge of geography, and they knew that there were Kunlun slaves, that is, black slaves, in Portuguese families in Macao. At one time, the wealthy merchants of Canton also liked to decorate the façade with black slaves, but they were banned.

The messenger also described the condition of the negroes to Jiaqing, telling them that they were a group of people who drank blood.

If you tell the Han people, you may be scared and dare not go.

But the Manchu monarchs and ministers knew too well what the situation was about Ru Mao's blood drinking, not only was it not terrible, but it had no combat effectiveness at all. The tribes in the Heilongjiang area are also described as Ru Mao drinking blood, and they can only obediently provide soldiers in front of the organized Eight Banners Army.

As for Zhou Lang asking them to go to Kunlunnu's land to rebuild the Qing Dynasty, whether there are any other plans, Jiaqing doesn't know, but this is his few choices, either die, and then the Qing Dynasty will be destroyed, or go to break through, and the Qing Dynasty may still survive.

But in order not to be harmed by Zhou Lang, Jiaqing still cautiously made a slightly excessive request, they had to send a group of people to gain a foothold first, and when the news of these people came back, they would go one after another, before that, Da Zhou must allow them to continue to stay in Yili.

After thinking about this condition, Zhou Lang also agreed, after all, sending these people at one time is equivalent to killing them, and they have to provide them with all the materials, which is too costly.

Zhou Lang told them that they could go one after another, but Da Zhou was only responsible for providing supplies for three years, according to the number of people they sent, and once the three years passed, the aid would be cut off, and they would have to support themselves. This forces them to send as many people as possible within three years to build up the productivity to provide survival for all.

In order to prevent the Jiaqing from harboring the illusion of connecting with Russia and continuing to steal from Ili, Zhou Lang told them that after a year, regardless of whether they succeeded in establishing a foundation in the Kunlun Nu State, the Great Zhou would enter Ili, take over the defense of the area, and continue to allow them to live, but they must surrender their weapons.

Jiaqing didn't want to agree to these conditions, but the envoy of the Great Zhou said that this was just to convey the emperor's will, and there was no room for negotiation.

So in the winter of the following year, the first batch of Eight Banners immigrants set sail.