Article 661 Overseas State-Building 1
In the generation of Empress Dowager Meng's father, the Meng family has not produced any outstanding talents.
Moreover, it was because of her sister's bad idea to enter the palace and make a spell case that she was seized by Liu Waster and falsely accused and abolished. Since the death of the first emperor Zhao Xu and the restoration of the Empress Dowager Meng, she has been very strict with the Meng family.
At the request of the Empress Dowager Meng, the Meng family took the initiative to move their family to Meixian County in Shuzhong. It is not only the hometown of the three fathers and sons of the Su family, but also the place where her grandfather Meng Yuan used to be an official. Therefore, the Meng family in Beijing is only the family of the Empress Dowager Meng's brother.
In ancient China, whenever a new emperor succeeded to the throne, he had to reward the mother family. Before the Empress Dowager Zhu was still alive, Zhao Ban was still young, so he didn't take care of it.
After the death of the Empress Dowager, in the following year, at the suggestion of Cai Dao, Zhao Ban canonized Meng Yuan as the king of the county and presented him as a lieutenant. In order to make up for the Empress Dowager Meng, Xiao Zhao also suggested that Cai Dao should give the Meng family a big island overseas, so that the little emperor would not have to give the Meng family a real seal, and he could make the Meng family rank among the ranks of high-level military generals.
This is naturally a trivial matter for him, and because of the inexplicable relationship with Empress Dowager Meng, Cai Dao is also willing to help with this. As a result, the Meng family didn't have much effort to get one of the three super islands in Nanyang.
However, Cai Dao sold all the military generals a chart of the South China Sea, a large transport ship, and the general shape of the island. It will take their own efforts to conquer the island once and for all.
For the allocation of specific islands, Cai Dao allocates the islands in the form of auctions, and it is on a first-come, first-served basis. After all, among the islands in the South China Sea, there are only a few large islands that are truly famous.
Over the years, these warrior families have initially established a permanent fortress and colonial base on the island they bought, as well as a dock with a natural harbor.
The Great Song Dynasty has begun to tend to be stable, and the various military generals can let go of their hands and feet and do a big job on their own islands, and generally do the following three major things.
First, defend against the aborigines of the island and conquer the entire island completely.
Almost all the military generals bought a large number of Japanese people from Cai Dao's hands, of course, these revenues were owned by the national treasury, because, in these years, when Cai Dao conquered the main island of the Japanese country, all the troops used were forbidden troops.
Then, they recruited a group of loyal soldiers from the Great Song Dynasty, united with the Japanese to form a mercenary army, and after training, they were led by the sons and nephews of the family. This was done very slowly, but effectively, and while vigorously attacking the island's natives, it was also possible to significantly reduce the losses of mercenaries.
Whether it is the Song people or the Japanese people, at the beginning, they were very unaccustomed to the weather on the Nanyang Islands, so some military generals who did not follow Cai Dao's advice were very badly attrition, and even one family was actually united by the local natives, fought an ambush, and the whole army was wiped out.
This made this family a big joke, and after Cai Dao heard about this, he immediately pushed the money he had used to buy nautical charts and sea ships to this family, and all the sea ships sold to this family were also forcefully accepted.
After learning about this, Cai Dao did not explain why he broke the contract, and the other military generals did not pay much attention to Cai Dao's overreaction to this.
Everyone knew that Cai Dao's move was to warn them to be careful, and the casualties of his army were small, but in the future, these families were going to move many people from the Great Song Dynasty to settle here. At that time, if this is still the case, the death will not be as simple as a few family children and mercenaries.
In fact, it is true, Cai Dao really doesn't care about the mercenaries of the hundreds of people, what he cares about is the attitude of the military general's family, he really treats people as savages and doesn't understand the art of war. You must know that these natives are born to live in the dense forests here, occupying the right time and place, so the only way to win is to grasp the land in their own hands and gradually compress the living space of the natives on the island.
Of these large islands, the only troublesome is the later island of Java. The area of the island can be ranked second, but the aborigines of the island can be ranked first among all the islands in Nanyang.
This large island was finally bought by the Yao family and his son.
Yao Xiong and Yao Pingzhong were the first current or retired generals of the Song Dynasty to reach the Nanyang Islands, and they conquered the islands the fastest.
At the beginning, although Yao Pingzhong had the experience of the Southern Expeditionary Army, he was young and vigorous after all, and he did not listen to Cai Dao's opinion, and suffered a lot in the battle with the local natives.
Later, Yao Xiong resigned and went into hiding because of his son, in fact, he followed his son to Java Island, and after he arrived, he immediately changed his strategy, and according to Cai Dao's suggestion, he used the Western army to deal with the Western Xia people, and advanced in a fortress style. Moreover, on this island, there is also a very big benefit, the local natives captured alive by the Yao family can be sold for money.
Nowadays, whether it is the official gold, silver, copper and iron mines, or the private coal mines, the miners used in it, except for the supervisors and technicians, no longer have any such deadly work as Song Gan. The miners have been arranged by the natives of these islands in the South Seas.
The indigenous people on the island of Java accounted for eighty percent of the total number of miners in the Song Dynasty.
With such a big benefit, the Yao family quickly returned to its roots.
In order for several families to complete the task of clearing the island as soon as possible, Cai Dao gathered more than a dozen family principals who bought the island and pointed out a more trouble-free method for them - the snipe and the clam compete with each other, and the fisherman profits.
They had full authority to use the specialties in the Great Song Dynasty to win over some of the local indigenous tribes, and unite them to attack the tribes that were enemies of these tribes. In doing so, we can not only save troops, but also speed up the clearing of the island.
Count them all in one fell swoop!
The reason why he chose Qingdao was that Cai Dao wanted to maintain the purity of the bloodline of the subjects on the island, and in this regard, most of the other military generals made the same decision after collective deliberation. Only a very small number of families think that Qingdao is too wasteful of time, if they learn from Jiang Ziya's governance of Qi back then, they will follow the customs of the locals.
When the others heard this explanation, they could only secretly despise the patriarchs of these families in their hearts.
The martial artists are vulgar and unliterate, and they have always been looked down upon by the literati, which is not inappropriate in the first place.