Chapter 537: Nanyang Overseas Consulate (2) Abolished
"Abolish the Nanyang Overseas Consulate?" , Xia Bing pondered and chewed on this sentence slowly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the end, the abolition of Nanyang overseas territories does not seem to have much to do with the relocation of the capital. And in her opinion, the time is not ripe to abolish the overseas territory of Nanyang.
With the incorporation of large territories such as Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, Luzon, Mindanao, and Ceylon, the process of assimilation within the overseas territories of the South Seas has slowed down even more. Even Sulawesi and Sumatra, which were included in the country a few years ago, have not reached the level of assimilation of the local provinces of Daming.
The reason for this is also obvious.
Mainly before 97 years, the Ming Dynasty was in Nanyang, and successively experienced a series of battles such as the Battle of Borneo, the Battle of Manila, the Battle of the Malay Peninsula, and the Final Battle of the Wise Nanyang. In addition, the internal wars of Burma and Siam are more or less involved. The pace of the war in the Ming Dynasty has basically not stopped.
You know, fighting a war is very expensive.
Although during the war, the Ming Dynasty reaped sufficient benefits from Lanfang, Sulu, Boni, Vietnam, Siam, Burma, Chenla, India and other countries. But it will take some time to transform into productivity.
After all, money itself cannot be eaten! Only by using it to buy and pay for it can you get the materials you want.
But the pace of the war in the Ming Dynasty was too fast. So that inside the Ming Dynasty, there is no time at all to produce enough living materials. As a result, there is serious inflation in the Ming capital market. Currencies depreciate and prices skyrocket. However, the level of people's wages has not increased.
As a result, many people's living standards have inevitably regressed.
Now, although under the control of the Ming government, the inflation rate has dropped a lot. All kinds of daily necessities are also priced under strict official regulation. Supplemented by the system of food stamps, oil stamps, cloth stamps, etc., the basic living needs of the people are basically guaranteed.
However, the situation in which the supply of daily necessities exceeds demand has not been fundamentally improved.
Therefore, after the end of the war, the main energy of the Ming Dynasty was to develop the economy and restore the social productive forces. For those indigenous people living in the newly annexed territories, there is no energy to take care of them.
Locally, the local government of the Nanyang Overseas Territory also had no time to deal with the aborigines in the new territory due to the matter of the Qing refugees in Jiaozhi Town. As a result, the aborigines in these places have basically maintained their original living habits.
Of course, during Nanfeng's reign in Nanyang, he didn't do nothing. He scattered immigrants from Siam, Chenla, Burma, Vietnam, India and other places to settle in these aboriginal concentrated areas.
It's not about competing with them for resources, or creating any kind of ethnic hatred. Instead, they use these immigrants from countries with completely different customs and habits to hedge against the influence of the indigenous people in the local area. So as to imperceptibly consolidate the rule of the Ming Dynasty over the local area.
However, the assimilation effect caused by this method is very unsatisfactory. And immigrants from Siam, Chenla, Burma, Vietnam, India and other places are not enough for their own sinicization.
So it would be fanciful to expect them to promote the sinicization process of the local aborigines.
As a result, the degree of sinicization of the entire Nanyang overseas territory is very lagging behind.
Therefore, the abolition of the Nanyang overseas territory in this way is likely to cause the instability of the Ming Dynasty's rule in the local area.
After all, the local rules and regulations of Daming are very different from those of Nanyang Overseas Territory. The most obvious thing is that the local system of the Ming Dynasty is based on the living habits of the Han people. And all customs and habits are also respected by the Han people. There are also relatively rigid rules on dress, clothing, language, etc.
And the Nanyang overseas consulate is out of the need to appease the aborigines. So in the sinicization decree,The implementation is not tough.。 Even if the aborigines still maintain their original customs and habits, the administrative officials stationed in the local area by the Ming Dynasty also turn a blind eye.
If it is abolished,Then these sinicization measures,It will also converge with the local rules and regulations of the Ming Dynasty。 It is conceivable that under the impetus of these hard-line sinicization measures, it will inevitably arouse the resentment of the local aborigines, and it is very easy to cause social instability.
The Ming Dynasty must also send troops to maintain local social stability.
But the coup d'état in Mingjing had too much impact. Many troops stationed in Nanyang were also inevitably affected. Like the interruption of the supply of weapons and ammunition, it was tightly stuck on the neck of the troops. In addition, Mu Chun had used the cabinet to issue orders. Let the local troops return to Beijing for review.
Although there was a part of the troops, they did not accept orders. However, the troops in Sulawesi, western Borneo, and Mindanao, which were closer to Mingjing, had already obeyed the order and rushed back to Mingjing.
This is an order issued by Mu Chun when Liu Weiguo left Nanyang. Otherwise, there is Liu Weiguo, the Minister of National Defense, who is pressing. Mu Chun's orders could not command these troops.
Although Zhang Xiao tried his best to stop it, he was the director of the Navy. When it comes to the Army, there are always some whips out of reach. And Sulawesi, western Borneo, Mindanao and other places are too far away from Johor Bahru, the administrative center of the South Seas.
made him helpless to watch, those troops, one by one, returned to Mingjing.
Fortunately, at that time, the coup d'état in Mingjing had been quelled. These troops, too, avoided getting involved in the fighting.
However, in this way, the current situation of empty troops in some parts of Nanyang cannot be changed in the short term.
Therefore, at present, the most important thing is to stabilize the word. It is not easy to issue or implement any decree or initiative that is likely to cause instability.
This is also the reason why she believes that it is inappropriate to abolish Nanyang Overseas Consulate.
Seeing her frowning, Zuo Peng guessed that she had objections to this decision. He sighed and explained, "Hey! You also know that it is impossible for Nanfeng to be the leader of Nanyang Overseas Territory again, right? ”。
Xia Bing nodded, indicating that he understood.
And after the Mingjing coup subsided, she guessed this result.
In the end, Nanfeng is the minister of the Ministry of Affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and according to common sense, it is not suitable to go out to take office. The reason why she went to Nanyang at the beginning was that she also knew some rumors from other people.
One is that the position of the South Seas is critical, and the British power has also entered the South Seas. Therefore, Da Ming must send a figure of sufficient weight to Nanyang to sit in town.
The other is that Nanfeng and Mu Chun are at odds. At that time, Nan Feng was still a cabinet minister, and Mu Chun was the minister of industry. Both of them are important figures in the cabinet. Therefore, their discord will inevitably lead to cabinet instability. As a result, from top to bottom, the entire Ming administrative layer was in turmoil.
Moreover, Nanfeng's age at that time was indeed criticized. This is not to say that Nanfeng's strength and qualifications are not enough. But in the thinking of ordinary people, Nanfeng's age is indeed not suitable for entering the decision-making level. This can easily cause the entire group of traversers to distrust the decision-making level of the Ming Dynasty.
So in order to appease the people, the stability of the cabinet. Yang Chong passed by default when Nanfeng took the initiative to go out to take office. Later, although he was given the title of Minister of Political Affairs, he never controlled real power from beginning to end.
The right to speak in the cabinet is also reduced to a minimum.
Now that eight years have passed, Nanfeng is also twenty-six. Coupled with Nanyang's real achievements, it is a well-deserved thing for him to return to the cabinet and control the real power of the Minister of Political Affairs.
However, for this reason, it is too child's play to abolish the Nanyang Overseas Territory.
After all, the position of the leader of the South Seas is not impossible to succeed. After Nanfeng leaves, you can send another person over. Why should we abolish the entire Nanyang Overseas Territory at this inopportune time?
Thinking of this, Xia Bing didn't hide it. I expressed my views and concerns in one go.
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