Chapter 711: Itchy Hands

Baojia's acceptance of prisoners of the occupying power as labor force was certainly not free, and the "Nanming" government acted according to the principle of who benefits and who pays.

A family receiving a strong working man must pay five silver coins per year to the government, and three silver coins per year for women.

Nowadays, Cochin Province is the main grain producing area, and although the rice fields that serve the three crops can get better labor remuneration, the considerable labor required also makes the Cochin farmers feel inadequate.

Without him, there are too many acres of land and not enough labor.

In particular, when the farm is busy, it is impossible to hire helpers for three silver coins a month, and the mutual aid model between the Baojia cannot meet the needs of the more and more farmers in their hands.

For five pieces of silver, you will get a strong laborer for a year, as long as you don't mistreat them and feed and clothe them.

The peasants did the math, and it seemed that they would be able to obtain a surplus value of not less than ten silver coins a year.

Where there is knowledge, there is insight, where there is force, there is courage, and if there is organization, of course, there are backers, and the peasants in Jiaozhi have signed up to hire serfs, and some families have hired more than one.

The "Nanming" government specially issued a temporary law to clarify the management of slaves, and no one would be a slave for life, and the maximum period would be fifteen years before he became a free citizen.

The children born to the captives during their enslavement were also given free education, and the children were freedmen, and they learned to write Chinese characters and were included in the Han people.

Slaves have the right to subsistence through labor, a temporary law that guarantees their right to food and clothing through labor, and they have the right to appeal, and the chief of the pavilion is the seat of the magistrate to arbitrate, and if they are not satisfied, they can appeal from one level to another.

Employers who mistreat slaves will lose the opportunity to get slaves again, and the slaves in the family will be redistributed by Lijia, which means that such cheap and cost-effective labor will no longer be available to them.

Slaves actively learn Chinese in the process of labor, and those who are praised by the master can appropriately reduce the period of slavery reform, and the specific number of years of slavery varies from person to person, anyway, it is capped at 15 years.

It was the consistent policy of the "Nanming" government to give hope to everyone, and officials at all levels would convey policies and regulations to slaves and employers, and clarify the rights and obligations of the people, including slaves.

The media of the "Nanming" system has been formed, and the newspaper as a propaganda tool will of course become the mouthpiece of the government.

Newspapers such as Huaxia Daily, Huaxia Fortune Daily, Jiaozhi Evening News, and Nanhua Evening News have entered the homes of ordinary people, and it has long been a common practice to organize grassroots peasants to come to night schools to read newspapers and study at the grassroots level in Bao, Jia, and Li.

Shengdou Xiaomin can understand national affairs, which is unique in this era, and it is not taken for granted that the people of "Nanming" have become pioneers of the times.

Another month and a half has passed, and the "Nanming" army has completely occupied the entire Malay Peninsula.

According to preliminary statistics, there are more than 20 large and small sultanates here, with a total population of about 3 million, and it is also because the war has not been extinguished for many years, and the ratio of men and women is seriously imbalanced, which is better than that of Da Viet country, about 1.3 to 1.

More than 1 million people between the ages of 13 and 40 were sent to the "Nanming" to be sinicized through continuous labor, and the maximum number of people accepted by Jiaozhi reached more than 600,000, and these people worked hard to produce grain, and the number of tuntian fields increased by at least four or five million mu.

This invasion of the Malay Peninsula certainly did not need to supplement the military expenses, because the value of the looted gold and silver treasures had exceeded 30 million silver coins, and the value of real estate, mines, land, and so on was immeasurable.

Due to the mature territory digestion and sinicization of captives, more than one million captives will also bring a direct contribution of at least four million silver coins to the "Nanming" government every year, and the total value of their hard work should exceed fifteen million silver coins.

Of course, the soldiers and civilians of the "Southern Ming" who participated in the occupation of the new territory will really reap the benefits of expansion and colonization, and the peasants who remain in the rear will also receive cheap labor and can also feel the fruits brought about by the strength of the motherland.

With a population of 3 million, there are Han Chinese plus 500,000 of their immediate family, why are there so many Han Chinese?

Because as long as there is a Han Chinese in the family, the whole family member is regarded as a Han person, regardless of whether they know Chinese or Chinese characters, and they can learn it slowly in the future.

After this decree was announced, everyone of Han Chinese was excited, because as soon as the motherland army arrived, all Han Chinese were privileged.

The Han Chinese did not need to be captives and reformed through labor, but took over the fields under the name of the Sultan and led some of the remaining natives to continue farming.

They have gone from being bullied in a foreign country to being the owner here, how can they not like it?

The Han Chinese are seen as pagans by the indigenous people of Southeast Asia, who will create wealth and can tolerate marginalization. From time to time, of course, the natives would unite to slaughter the Han people and take the fruits of their labor.

From now on, the Han nation will soon become the main ethnic group of this land, and the Han people will run this place into a royal paradise.

A large number of Han Chinese have immigrated here one after another, and the organizational structure of the joint defense of armor will soon be formed, and the Han people who have weapons and are often trained will no longer be bullied by anyone.

The occupation of the Malay Peninsula was done in the same way as the invasion of the Kingdom of Viet and the Kingdom of Aceh, and in the end it was necessary to ensure that the proportion of the Han people reached 80%.

As long as the motherland is strong, the "Han people" who use expedient measures will change their attitudes and become long-term solutions, and it will be difficult to distinguish them from each other after one or two generations.

This is verified by history, the Han nation is inclusive, and it will develop into the current scale of too many famous ethnic groups for thousands of years, and even a part of the Xiongnu have been completely sinicized.

Huang Sheng will also deliberately strengthen education, unify clothing, hair accessories and etiquette, and everyone will speak Chinese, write Chinese characters, and read poems and chapters left in China for 5,000 years.

The dispersal of the alien peoples living in groups into the armor made it difficult for them to obtain the status of freemen without changing themselves, and their living conditions were far inferior to those of their neighbors.

Giving preferential treatment to Sinicization activists to become free people and Han people are not distinguishing between each other, so that their living conditions are thriving, and widely publicized as a model, and over time it will naturally come naturally.

The news that the entire Malay Peninsula was seized by the "Nanming" kingdom spread in the Indochina Peninsula, the king of Guangnan was not alarmed, the lord of the Lancang kingdom trembled, the emperor of the Ayutthaya Dynasty was furious, and the king of the Donghu Dynasty immediately realized that he had to go south to defend the land and prevent the invasion of the "Nanming".

At the end of April of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, 180,000 soldiers of the Donghu Dynasty confronted the army of the "Southern Ming" fifty miles north of Tawei, a southern port, and at the same time, the Ayutthaya Dynasty sent a general to lead more than 200,000 soldiers and horses to the south with the intention of recapturing the rich Pattani region.

The first fierce battle of hundreds of thousands of troops in the invasion of the Malay Peninsula fifty miles south of Ratchaburi Province is about to begin.