Section 316 Global War for Supremacy (3)
Zhou Lang is not worried about this problem at all, for the simple reason that the Burmese will never be able to solve an important problem, and that is the ethnic question. In later generations, there were still ethnic forces such as Rakhine and Kachin in Myanmar, and it is impossible for the current Burmese people to solve it.
Therefore, Zhou Lang judged that the annexation of Bengal would not greatly enhance the national strength of Myanmar, but would be a turning point for the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. Originally, the Burmese, the ruling ethnic group of the Gongbang Dynasty, accounted for only half of the population of Myanmar, but now the sudden increase in the rule of more than 10 million Bengalis will make the Burmese a small ethnic group, and ethnic contradictions will drag down this small agricultural economy.
It's not that Zhou Lang is vicious, it's just that he can't let countries around China that can challenge the central dynasty, and terror control of these countries is secondary, so that these countries have the power to confront China, and then become pawns of other countries to balance China, it would be too annoying.
So the ambitious Gongbang Dynasty must die, and the way to let them die is actually very beautiful, let them hold on!
Before dying, feed them a big mouthful of fat. If the Burmese are really wise enough to rule over more than 10 million people who are more economically and culturally developed than them with more than 2 million people, then they are fighting for their own strength, and they deserve to stand among the fiercely competitive nations of the world. It is a pity that the Burmese people in the 21st century have not shown this ability, and even the ethnic minorities of Myanmar cannot control it, let alone control the Bengalis who believe in Islam and are difficult to assimilate.
Moreover, the Gongbang Dynasty has always been submissive, and Zhou Lang could not find an excuse to suppress them, after all, China still has many vassal states, and such a blatant suppression of a rising vassal state is too chilling for other countries, and will make the already somewhat anachronistic imperial court system collapse prematurely.
Therefore, this dynasty can only be killed by the special political power trick of "taking it in advance, giving it first".
At this time, Meng Yun, a generation of British lords of the Gongbang Dynasty, had died, but his son Meng was more ambitious than him, and continued to pursue an expansionist policy, using the family base accumulated by Meng Yun's reforms, and strengthened his control over Assam through strong means, and the national strength was strengthened compared with the Meng Yun era. Many advanced agricultural techniques have been learned from both India and China, and with the natural potential of the land of Myanmar, they have great potential for development.
Since Meng likes to expand, let him expand big at a time.
When they heard that China had agreed to let them annex a part of Bangladesh, Meng was really excited to join this war, which they did not fight with China's assistance, but relied on their own national strength, China only provided 100,000 rifles and 300 cannons, and they had to figure out their own ways to do the rest.
If they can capture Bengal, the nest of British India, with 100,000 men, it will be considered a victory, and if not, the fruits of Meng Yun's reforms will be exhausted in this war of the more powerful British India.
Because of the Burmese attack, the Chinese army will not fight directly in Bengal, but will focus on annexing the British overseas colonies.
At this time, another person jumped out, Mr. Napoleon, who had not been seen for a long time, and they pleaded with Zhou Lang for permission to form a French volunteer regiment to expedition to Canada.
Zhou Lang also happily agreed, firstly, because Napoleon's use value has been squeezed dry, there is not much oil and water squeezed from him, and secondly, Zhou Lang is already a little tired of Napoleon, this person is indeed a hero of the times, but some of his problems are really unbearable, after staying in China for a long time, Zhou Lang has no good impression of him, this person likes to point fingers everywhere, very conceited, but his influence is huge, and he can fool some people, fortunately, this is China that has not fallen to the bottom, If China had been at the end of the Qing Dynasty, perhaps some of his remarks would have led to a revolution.
Yes, this man secretly instigated revolution in China, something that Zhou Lang could not have imagined when he was killed, and Napoleon conducted a great deal of investigation and believed that the Chinese peasants should start a revolution to smash the current system of land property rights and change the current status quo in which the landlord class controlled most of the land.
Because it was too easy for the Qing Dynasty to win the world, after entering the Central Plains, it did not break the status quo of the old landlords monopolizing the land. Every time there was a change of dynasty in history, creating a large number of borderless land, the new dynasty must have encouraged landless peasants to reclaim the land, and the Qing Dynasty handed over a large number of ownerless or even ownerless mature fields to the banner people to occupy them.
As a result of these circumstances, except for a few places such as Shaanxi and Sichuan, where the population was seriously decided, and areas such as Jiangnan, which experienced less peasant wars, basically retained the situation of land occupied by big families and large landlords during the Ming Dynasty, and land annexation continued to develop.
In the north, in addition to enclosing land, the Manchurian aristocracy continued to use their power to forcibly occupy and buy common farmland. During the Yongzheng period, Manchurian Zhuangtou suo was saved, and in Wanping County, "he dominated one side, Tian Lianqian Mo, and recruited tenants for him to drive". Jiao Guodong, the head of Manchuria, is also "more than 1,000 hectares of land" in Baodi County. Generally, Han landlords also took the opportunity to annex land at this time.
In the south, land annexation continued to develop on the basis of the Ming dynasty. As early as the Kangxi period, Songjiang Mansion, which was relatively economically developed, "had a scheming family and took the opportunity to harvest widely, so there were tens of thousands of acres of land, and the second was 340,000 to 120,000 people." The big bureaucrat Xu Qianxue "bought 10,000 hectares of land in Wuxi from Mu Tianyan", and Gao Shiqi also bought 1,000 hectares of land in Pinghu, Zhejiang. Kangxi lamented in his edict that in the southern provinces, "three or four out of ten of the small people have permanent property, and the rest are rented out of land". By the time of Qianlong, Hubei was already "five or six out of ten of those who have returned their fields to rich households today, and the people of the old days are now tenant households." In Guangxi, "most of the fields belong to the rich households, and most of the people are cultivators".
By the time of the Qianlong period, more than half of the cultivated land had been divided among the landlords, and many peasants who had previously owned land had also become tenants of the landlords.
After Zhou Lang seized the world, he still relied on landlords to maintain order at the grassroots level of society, so he did not break this land system.
Zhou Lang also admitted that most of the land is concentrated in the hands of landlords, but is the concentration of land really the original sin? The commercial society will definitely go through an era of land commoditization and enter an era of great land accumulation.
During the French Revolution, the feudal aristocracy of the "enclosure movement" for more than 100 years abolished the enclosure of traditional village and community land, banned the sale of land, and issued new land certificates to peasants, through a series of measures, making France a country of small landowners. At the same time, England, during the Napoleonic Wars, entered the peak of the enclosure movement, and when the French abolished the large land system, the British gave thousands of enclosure permits to the aristocracy, and enclosed the last public land in England as the landlord's farm.
The agrarian revolution in France cannot be considered a failure because of the later successes of the British, nor can the British system be considered backward because of the later development of French agriculture.
Only the right one is the best, the presidential system may be a good system, but in black Africa it will create a large number of warlords, it is better to give the black uncles an emperor; High welfare is a good institution, but in South America, where there is no self-control, it would degenerate a developed Argentina into a developing country.
China's rural land annexation allowed the big landlords and big clans to control the vast majority of the land and the most grassroots power, but he brought stability to China, and stability is the biggest thing.
Therefore, Zhou Lang believes that this land system is suitable at least for now, and he is not in a hurry to reform. He tried to use the power of commerce to reshape the social order, rather than using the agrarian revolution to reincarnate peasant uprisings again and again.
But Napoleon was paranoid that it was not good to have land, and he preached everywhere that China should divide the land equally among the peasants. He really thinks so, including saying so in front of Zhou Lang, which is annoying.
And he did not give up his ambitions, at the beginning he experienced several assassinations, Zhou Lang allowed him to form his own personal guard, he used this power, received a large number of veterans loyal to him from France, Napoleon is a figure, he can always find funders, Zhou Lang can easily grasp his financial resources, and find that a large part of them is even provided by the feudal nobles in France, I really don't know what those nobles think.
Napoleon, who had a lot of money, lived very well in China, and his guards were as large as 3,000, experienced in battle, well-armed, and lived in the capital, which made people start to worry.
Now Napoleon expressed the hope that Zhou Lang would allow him to take his guards on an expedition to British-ruled Canada, how could Zhou Lang not agree, as for Napoleon's thoughts, either hoping to seize Canada and stand on his own, or hoping to use Canada as a springboard to return to Europe for restoration, Zhou Lang didn't care.
As a result, with Napoleon's expedition in Canada, the battlefield of Sino-British hegemony also expanded to the Americas.
What will the United States, the new owner of the rapid rise of the Americas, think at this time?
The Americans have always had ambitions for British North America, always thinking of annexing Canada and squeezing Britain out of North America. But Britain is also worried about the expansion of the Chinese in western North America, the expansion of the Chinese is too terrifying, the expedition organized by Zhu Li has successfully crossed the Rocky Mountains and established a stronghold in the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains, although it is only a military stronghold, there are not many immigrants, but it has had an impact on the psychology of the Americans, after buying Louisiana from France, the expedition organized by the Americans has crossed the territory of the Indians, met with the Chinese forces, and now the two sides are neighbors.
On the one hand, it is worried that Chinese will continue to advance eastward, and on the other hand, it will fight against Canada, which annexed the British, and now that it is fighting Chinese British, which side will the United States choose? It's really hard to say!