Chapter 502: Forced Cultural Indoctrination in Siberia

While the indemnity of about 100 million silver dollars stimulated the rapid development of the entire economy of the Ming Dynasty, how to better develop and utilize the two vast territories of New Western Siberia and Eastern Siberia that had been occupied before was also put on the agenda. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhu Youxiao did not dare to make a decision at will, this is the first time that the Ming Dynasty, or for the whole of China, has directly obtained a large territory through this treaty method, he is not the result of war, it is obtained by eradicating or annihilating all the military forces in his territory, and it is not because of active annexation.

Therefore, for Da Ming, the acquisition of this kind of territory does not have a strong desire to possess it permanently, and it seems that there is a general consciousness of just taking a handful.

No one has ever thought about how to own this land for a long time.

Some reformist officials had already eagerly suggested that Zhu Youxiao immediately aim to mine all the coal and iron in Siberia back to the Ming Dynasty in the shortest possible time, so as to prevent him from being unable to control Siberia due to the decline of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Siberian Society would eventually become independent and eventually be controlled by the Rakshasa State, but the Ming Dynasty did not gain any wealth during the time he occupied Siberia.

At this time, the Ming officials and even the entire ruling class did not regard Siberia as their own inherent territory, and there was a kind of bandit mentality, that is, if they occupied this place, they should seize the wealth of this place, and they were even mentally prepared to lose Siberia in the future.

Even, some old-fashioned officials directly advised Zhu Youxiao to abandon the wild land of Siberia and let the barbarian people in this area fend for themselves, and even quoted scriptures to say that occupying Kyushu in the world is the orthodoxy of the world, and there is no need for the Ming Dynasty to expand abroad, and so on.

Naturally, the reformists scoffed at the old-fashioned view of the old-fashioned school, and even ridiculed these old-school officials for being more active than anyone else in the fight for the cake of 70 million taels of silver indemnity.

But now, when he saw such a wild place as Siberia, which could only develop industry and not agriculture, he short-sightedly asked His Majesty to give up.

After all, most of these officials were traditional squires, and although they were forced to accept policies such as the integrated payment of grain by the gentry due to the emperor's authority, they still lived by the development model of the small-scale peasant economy, so what they pursued was still stability and order, rather than expansion and enterprising.

However, on the discussion on how to develop and utilize Siberia, Zhu Youxiao still clearly expressed his principled viewpoint.

At this court meeting, Zhu Youxiao specially ordered someone to hang the detailed map of Asia drawn by the Ministry of War, Jinyiwei, and the Royal Academy of Sciences a few days ago in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace, on his own danfan, so as to give the most intuitive experience to the officials who have only read the Four Books and the Five Classics and have only visited along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

"This is Siberia! The entire territory is almost the same as the entire border of my Ming Dynasty, and now we have obtained this large territory from the hands of the Rakshasa Kingdom, some of you say to give up directly and let it fend for itself, can you guarantee that when it is left to fend for itself, this place will not be unified by a heroic figure, and then become a big hidden danger for my Ming Dynasty?

Some people say that they should hurry up and plunder the coal and iron of their land, and even cut down all the trees here, dig up the ginseng here, and kill the rare beasts here, and I ask you, I will give you 100,000 horses, and give you another ten years, will you be able to mine them all, cut them all, dig them all, and kill them all? ”

After Zhu Youxiao raised his arms and said this, the entire Ming officials present also began to whisper, and some officials even widened their eyes, because they never thought that Siberia was such a vast land, and many of them just naively thought that Siberia was just a small piece of land outside the desert north.

However, these officials didn't expect the Rakshasa Congress to give such a large piece of territory directly to the Ming Dynasty, and some officials thought of how terrible it was when the Rakshasa Kingdom did not lose these territories, but the Ming Dynasty defeated it and got such a large piece of territory from its hands, and many of them realized what kind of enemy the Ming had defeated.

Of course, as Zhu Youxiao and some officials of the reformist faction know, although the Rakshasa Kingdom is large, it is not a grade worse than the population and social wealth of the Ming Dynasty.

Since it is such a large piece of territory, as an official of the Ming Dynasty, it is natural that the imperial court cannot easily give up, after all, once it is abandoned, it will not be able to explain to history and future generations.

As a result, some people began to suggest how to digest this vast territory, and some ministers suggested that the four khanates should be established in imitation of the former Yuan, and the royal princes should be sent to these places to establish vassals and directly manage these places.

And some ministers suggested directly using the sub-feudal system, not only to divide the royal princes and princes to manage these places, but also to some meritorious heroes and even princesses and monarchs can get the fiefs of these places, so that the whole of Siberia will become a small country composed of countless clans and relatives, so that there will be no country that can threaten the Ming Dynasty.

Many reformist officials wanted to take advantage of this to strengthen private property, and suggested that Zhu Youxiao would lease or sell this Siberia directly, or that the merchants should contract a certain land, and only pay a certain amount of taxes for the imperial court.

Of course, there are also officials who pay more attention to the state-led Ming economy, which believes that Siberia should continue to be developed by state capital, that is, the Huangzhuang develops agriculture, the Royal Industrial Company is responsible for mining, and the Royal Weaving Bureau is responsible for purchasing animal skins.

However, what Zhu Youxiao always thought about was not how to develop Siberia, but how to establish the political nature of Siberia, that is, his relationship with the Ming Dynasty, whether it was a feudal land that the Ming Dynasty now occupied, or an administrative region of the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, as the emperor now, whether he wants to divide Siberia to the kings, or divide the princes and nobles, or directly set up the Chengxuan Political Envoy Department, and set up administrative divisions such as prefectures, prefectures, and counties, imitating the south of the desert, the north and other places to implement the policy of changing the land and returning to the stream.

However, in Zhu Youxiao's view, Siberia is different from Mobei and Monan, although Mobei and Monan are places where Tatars are concentrated, but because of their proximity to Guannai, the degree of sinicization or the influence of Han culture is naturally higher than that of the original inhabitants of Siberia.

Moreover, because the places such as Mo Nan and Mo Bei were occupied by war, a large number of reactionary forces that could succeed were eliminated in the war, so that there were very few rebellions encountered in the process of changing the land and returning to the river.

It is precisely because Monan and Mobei were influenced by Han culture and weakened the power of the reactionaries in the war that the transformation of Monan and Mobei became very smooth.

However, for Siberia, although the Ming Dynasty dispatched two advance teams, there was no major military conflict with the Rakshasa State in Siberia, Qi Changguo was directly marching to the Moscow Castle, and Jiao Lian had been advancing to the west.

Therefore, now the local armed forces in Siberia against the colonization of the Ming Dynasty are only afraid that they will become a force to be reckoned with, and because the Ming Dynasty has paid almost all attention to the southern Haikou and the Jiannu and Tartar outside the Guan, the entire Ming Dynasty has no influence on the Siberian region.

As a result, many of the native inhabitants of Siberia have begun to be nearly Westernized and completely Westernized, and religious beliefs have accounted for a large proportion of the ideological system of these primitive people, which has completely contradicted the Han culture, which reveres ancestors above all gods.

Therefore, in Zhu Youxiao's view, if he takes it for granted that Siberia is the same as the desert south and north and other places, and directly starts to build factories and workshops to develop the economy, I am afraid that a large proportion of the Siberian Yi people will be found to resist to a greater extent.

Therefore, in order to occupy Siberia for a long time, it is necessary to completely eradicate any influence of Western culture in Siberia, and make everyone realize that the only way is to keep up with the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao finally decided not to send anyone to develop Siberia first, nor to divide this vast Siberian region to the kings and relatives, but first mobilized a large number of Praetorian Guards and border troops into Siberia.

Since Siberia has been ceded to the Ming Dynasty by the Rakshasa State, and the Ming Dynasty naturally wants to complete its absolute military occupation, and at present, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to Siberia, and the Rakshasa Kingdom naturally did not dare to obstruct it.

Allowing a large number of Ming troops to enter Siberia is not only to achieve complete occupation of Siberia, but also to better prepare for the Ming Dynasty in Siberia in the future.

Zhu Youxiao decided to take coercive measures against these overly religious people, so he directly made Yang Sichang, a hawk-dog figure in the army, the first governor of the Ming Dynasty in Siberia, and immediately began to implement the policy of forced cultural assimilation in Siberia.

Yang Sichang directly ordered the local army to immediately smash all the buildings related to the cross symbol, and even if anyone stopped the army from smashing the cross symbol, he himself would be directly beheaded.

Not only the symbols of religious buildings such as crosses have been destroyed and eliminated in large numbers, but also the symbols of other Western religious beliefs, and even some people, if they have these signs, will not be required to be clear immediately, otherwise they will be directly killed.

Yang Sichang also directly ordered everyone in Siberia to speak Chinese, learn Chinese, and not use other languages and cultural elements, or be punished as traitors and thieves.

Naturally, forcibly erasing a culture is not easy for a region, especially a vast region like Siberia, and it will inevitably encounter a strong degree of resistance, but in order to make Siberia become a land of sinicization as soon as possible, it has to be more ruthless in the early stage.

I don't know how many primitive inhabitants of Siberia began to learn from the Ming Dynasty to wear robes, recite poems and songs, and know the gossip of the Book of Changes.

Zhu Youxiao will not worry that a large number of aborigines will be drastically reduced due to the forced indoctrination of Siberian culture, and even make Siberia more deserted, he would rather cut off a large number of non-Sinicized aliens in the early stage, and even make Siberia a no-man's land, and he will also make Siberia truly belong to the Ming Dynasty in terms of culture and ideology before developing Siberia.

Therefore, in the three years from the 17th year of the Apocalypse to the 20th year of the Apocalypse, the speed of development in Siberia did not increase rapidly, but the number of troops stationed in Siberia increased day by day, and rebellions or mass massacres in various regions of Siberia were not uncommon.

I don't know how much blood was shed before the entire Siberian region became a geographical area that had become extinct from Western culture, and there was no cross or even any Western religious figure who showed his body here.

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In this regard, the Rakshasa Kingdom naturally had no time to take care of it, and when Zhu Youxiao forcibly implemented the sinicization of the Siberian region, most of the reactionaries were almost all people from the Rakshasa Kingdom, because they were more inclined to the culture of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

But the current Rakshasa country can't control them, they can only help them, they no longer have the courage to defend their sovereignty, and they can no longer even propose any intervention in Siberian affairs.

Moreover, the current Rakshasa country, the Romanov dynasty established by Mikhail I, is still worried about the Ming Dynasty to establish the Ming concession in the capital Moscow, which also makes people in the Rakshasa country worry about whether the officials of the Far Eastern Empire will take advantage of this to further control the internal affairs of the Moscow Castle and even the Rakshasa country.

Some far-sighted Rakshasa officials are already worried about whether the Ming Dynasty will be able to easily interfere in the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty and even manipulate the Ming economy once they establish a concession in Moscow.

But I am worried that according to the treaty, the Rakshasa still has to divide a part of the area in Moscow as the concession area of the Ming Empire in Moscow, the capital of the Rakshasa Kingdom, and sign a subsidiary treaty outside the treaty, that is, the Ming Dynasty wants to lease the territory for 100 years or 99 years, but the subsidiary treaty still does not mention whether the Ming can interfere in the internal affairs of the Rakshasa State.

In other words, it is very likely that the Romanov dynasty of the Rakshasa Kingdom will truly become the puppet regime of the Ming Dynasty.

And when the officials designated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty and the troops according to the specified number and level of equipment were stationed in the Moscow concession, it also caused a lot of sensation in the Rakshasa country, because for the Romano Dynasty, it is rare to see so many yellow people stationed in this Moscow castle.

But what the entire Romanov dynasty would not have thought of was that the first thing that the officials of the Ming Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the troops subordinate to the Ministry of War who came to the Moscow Concession were to set up obstacles between the Concession and the outside world, prohibiting the Rakshasa people from entering the concession area at will, and even directly hanging "Foreigners and dogs are not allowed to enter!" For a while, it also caused an uproar in public opinion, because in the eyes of many Rakshasa people, they have always been the only ones who look down on others, but they didn't expect that the Rakshasa people of Nuoda would have a day when they would be so discriminated against by the Ming Dynasty.