393 The Thriving Burmese Town (Part I)
The dedication of the officials has kept the lives of millions of Han people in order, and the craftsmen have worked in several major cities in the business district, in government-run workshops or privately run workshops, and their daily wages are guaranteed.
As for the peasants, they do their old job, honestly cultivate the land in the agricultural area, harvest grain, and Zhennan Houfu 28, Houfu wants two, they keep eight, but the grain output is too high, what should they do if they can't eat it? Let this grain rot?
No, no, of course not, they also have two choices, one is to sell to Zhennan Houfu, and Zhennan Houfu does grain reserves and grain export business, and the other is to organize themselves to go to the vegetable market in the city in the southern business district to do business, engage in retail to make extra money or something, as for doing business with Westerners, Xiao Ruxun did not open to the people of Myanmar, and all the products of Myanmar Town are officially responsible for foreign trade.
Xiao Ruxun, a businessman in other places, can't control it, but among the more than one million people in Myanmar Town, there are really no big merchants, and the big merchants are living a good life in various places, why do you want to come to a poor and white place like your Burma Town? Xiao Ruxun did not put forward any policy to attract investment, because Myanmar does not need it at all, first, he Xiao Ruxun has his own money, and the other is that the population is so large that he does not need the participation of large businessmen.
The number of commodities in the town of Myanmar itself is not much, tea silk and simple porcelain are the mainstream, these three things are monopolized by the Hou Mansion, and the people do not have them, so Xiao Ruxun arranges officials to be responsible for contacting the Westerners, and the grain business is the monopoly of the Hou Mansion, which does not allow anyone to interfere, and the rest of the non-mainstream handicraft products are not very attractive to Westerners, and it is difficult to form a major export scale and become an industry.
Under the current scale of more than one million people, such a differentiated plan is very appropriate, enough to cope with the current situation, as for the rest, it is a matter after the population increases, and there is no need to consider it at present, as for the local construction and development tasks, Xiao Ruxun did not let the Han people undertake, the Han people should be responsible for production, the task of construction and development, Xiao Ruxun directly found those tribes of the aborigines to do.
Xiao Ruxun also had the idea of restricting their development, so he paid wages and hired some young and strong laborers from some tribes to build river embankments, open up wasteland to build villages and houses, and repair city walls to dredge rivers, etc., and let the army monitor these tribal laborers.
As for the army, it is a project that Xiao Ruxun focuses on construction, after all, the Ming court only left the firearms battalion of 5,000 Ningxia at the earliest, and the rest of the army was all recalled, Xiao Ruxun used 5,000 troops to manage more and more population, so according to the regulations of the imperial court, he has a suitable order to recruit an army of less than 30,000 people, so it is natural to recruit completely.
There are many places where the army needs to be used, and even some of the construction tasks can be slowed down, and the establishment of the army can be completed first, and many emergencies need to be maintained by the army to solve, and many immigration conflicts occurred at the earliest, Xiao Ruxun used the army as a policeman, and when the population was sufficient and the young and middle-aged labor force was sufficient, Xiao Ruxun recruited 30,000 young and strong people into the army.
Here Xiao Ruxun played a word game, you said 30,000, did not say whether it includes 5,000 firearms battalions, so it is also appropriate for me to recruit 30,000 excluding firearms battalions, of course, and the Ming Court is still according to 30,000, and the military salary issued by the governor of Yunnan is also according to 30,000, naturally, it is customary to deduct military salaries, even if Yunnan is taken care of by Shi Xing, it is also about 30 percent, and only 70 percent is in hand, which is equivalent to the military salary of more than 20,000 people.
Xiao Ruxun has to pay for the rest out of his own pocket, but it doesn't matter, the entire Myanmar's foreign business business is under Xiao Ruxun's control, and the monthly financial income is quite rich, and there is no shortage of this money, the main reason is that Xiao Ruxun wants to separate the army from the group of troops responsible for public security management, and the army will carry out the task, and the urban security will be handed over to these "police".
So in this time and space, Xiao Ruxun took the lead in proposing the concept of the police, which means "vigilant inspector", and separated the police force from the combat force, among the 30,000 newly recruited, 5,000 people were arranged to become police, scattered in the eight cities that Xiao Ruxun initially built and mastered, so that Chen Xie withdrew from the army and served as the first "police commander".
Since then, in the town of Burma, the police and the army have been separated, all civil disputes are handed over to the police force, and any theft incidents and fraud incidents that occur in the city are all under the management of the police, and the army has completely withdrawn from the city and stationed in various military camps.
Xiao Ruxun, the 30,000 troops, naturally also has his own arrangements, except for the 5,000 firearms battalion responsible for guarding the northern mountains for a long time, the rest of the units are all taking turns to guard various places, such as the army stationed around various cities, the sailor troops stationed on the seaside, and the vigilance and monitoring troops stationed around the indigenous settlements, etc., just like that, Xiao Ruxun still feels that the troops in his hand are not enough, and wants to expand, but he is afraid of interfering with production.
Xiao Ruxun does not plan to use the guard system, all the soldiers are recruited, nominally the guards are soldiers, and they are organized in the Myanmar military town, but the so-called military households, Xiao Ruxun doesn't care at all, they don't need to be soldiers from generation to generation, future generations can do whatever they want, Lao Zhu's world military system is a far-reaching root cause of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Ruxun will not repeat Lao Zhu's mistakes, not to mention anything else, the world military system must be banned in Myanmar.
Yuan Huang was very supportive of this, and he even pointed out very sharply that the root cause of the Tumubao Incident was the weakening of the military aristocracy, even if there was no Tumubao Incident, at least 20 years or more than 50 years, civilian officials could seize military control and marginalize the military aristocracy.
Because the military talents produced under the hereditary system cannot compete with the elite civilian officials who have fought hard for millions of people, the quality of the two is completely incomparable.
Even Yuan Huang was very forward-looking in putting forward the idea of setting up military schools to train military talents, and selecting officers through an examination system like civilian officials.
Let the officers and civilian officials be the same, they need to be elected by examination, and the talent pool of the two is exactly the same, and there is no distinction between the high and the low, so that the civilian officers can compete against each other and check and balance each other, so that it will not develop to the point where the civilian family is dominant.
This is simply quite advanced military thinking.