"Bow to your majesty!"

In the palace of Zhennan City, Chen Tai, the envoy of Nanyang Jing, and Han Guang, the governor of Zhennan, bowed to the ground and shouted with the main generals and officials under their respective subordinates. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Get up, you've worked hard all these years."

Yang Feng said lightly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Chen Tai hurriedly thanked him and got up.

Emperor Yang actually doesn't have much in front of his own people, that is, he likes to put on a show for the monarchs of his subject countries, but the court is actually very casual, and sometimes on some academic issues, he doesn't even mind that his subordinates have different opinions, for example, Lao Shao often has more heated discussions with him because of scientific issues, Chen Tai and these people have followed him since the beginning of the army, of course, they are also very aware of this, and after getting up, they each stand aside and wait, waiting for His Majesty's inquiry.

In other words, they have indeed worked hard over the years.

Especially Chen Tai and his subordinate generals, compared to the northern armies, their side is extremely hard, the northern armies are fighting on a large scale, but they are all regular large corps, and their enemies are actually almost endless guerrillas, terrifying attacks and such things, especially all kinds of diseases in the tropical environment, poisonous snakes and insects in the rainforest area, and even swamp miasma. The armies of the north are basically fine after fighting, and they have not actually finished fighting, their eyes are open every day to fight, and until now sporadic battles still occur from time to time, especially on the island of Java, where some of the resistance elements who fled into the mountains have not been completely cleared.

Of course, they have a great track record as well.

From the time the Ming army drove out the Dutch until now, in six years, they conquered the entire island of Java, the whole of Malaya, most of Sumatra for the Ming Dynasty, and the part of Borneo that did not belong to the Kingdom of Brunei was also directly under the Ming Dynasty. In addition, in Sulawesi, Ambon, and Timor Island, there is also a directly subordinate province, which makes up Zhennan Province, opening up nearly two million square miles, that is, one million square kilometers, for the Ming Empire, and all of them are extremely rich land.

During this period, the Ming army paid the price of 40,000 soldiers killed or died of disease, and nearly 100,000 were disabled, as for the enemies they killed......

There is no exact number for this for a long time.

Anyway, Zhennan Province has just completed the first census, and the Han people in the province, that is, the Chinese who moved from the Ming Dynasty, have a total of more than 320,000 people, not counting the garrison, in fact, the garrison alone has nearly 100,000, as for the native people, that is, the chaotic local ethnic groups, there are a total of 4 million, of which more than 3 million are women, that is to say, in this more than 1 million square kilometers of land, there are less than 1 million indigenous men, and there are actually less than 100,000 young and middle-aged people.

According to initial estimates, the population of this area should be around 10 million.

That is to say, in six years, they have lost six million people here, of course, so many people cannot be killed by the Ming army, some died in battle, some died of plague, some died of famine and starvation, and some were plundered and sold as slaves, in short, at this time, in addition to the two kingdoms of Aceh and Brunei, there should not be more than one million people in the two kingdoms of Aceh and Brunei, and the rest of the place includes 100,000 young adults and more than 3 million women, a total of 4 million people.

"But it's not that accurate."

Han Guang said cautiously: "The ministers only counted those who are ripe, and some cannibals hidden in the mountains and jungles can't be counted, just like the hinterland of Borneo and the swampy areas of Sumatra. ”

"Take your time!"

Yang Feng said nonchalantly.

That's really not easy to do, mainly because the cost is too high, especially in the hinterland of Borneo, even if modern times belong to the disaster of shooting pythons, at this time the Ming army is really too dangerous to enter, even the Japanese army was beaten out by Dayak headhunters in World War II, he doesn't think that at this time the Ming army is stronger than the Japanese army in World War II, and there are not many cannibals, and it will not hinder him, they like to hide in the forest and continue there, it is best not to come out for generations.

"How's the indoctrination done here?"

He then asked the envoy.

The Ming Dynasty has a full-time education envoy in all subject countries, border areas, and colonies, which belong to the unified management of the Ministry of Rites, and adopts a similar diocesan system, with an education envoy in each education area, and subordinate education officers and educators, whose main responsibilities are to remove all yin ancestral cults, eliminate all heretics, remove all prohibited books and carvings, statues and other things, in short, clean up all the old marks, and then teach the local natives the four books and five classics.

It's a little spoiled now, though.

At this time, the indoctrination envoys were more enthusiastic about building the shrine and icon of Emperor Yang, and there were also spreading the holy oracles, and even the devout believers in the mainland spontaneously ran to spread the gospel of His Majesty the Emperor.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are incompetent, and so far less than half of the natives have escaped ignorance."

The indoctrination envoy knelt down and said.

Of course, he didn't dare to say that most of this half is on the surface, and even he doesn't know how many are really devout converts, in fact, the main conflict in Zhennan Province is also caused by this problem, and those natives are not very sensitive to the Ming Dynasty to colonize them, anyway, they are ruled to rule, and whoever rules them is not the same. But for them to convert, this is very unfriendly, that is, those who work as hard laborers and women on the Ming plantation are more receptive to advanced civilizations, but those small indigenous tribes are more resistant to this.

Even if the Ming army demolished their temples and burned their scriptures, they could not force them to go to the indoctrination envoy to listen to the lectures.

You can't use a bayonet for this, can you?

The Ming army didn't mind using bayonets, but the question was how many soldiers there were? What's more, it's okay to escort them once, you can't let the soldiers escort them to the shrine every day!

"Don't just threaten them, but also lure them to advantage."

Emperor Yang said.

"Especially for the natives in the rubber plantations and sugar cane plantations, the Department of Education and Rehabilitation can buy some clothes and food, and for those who have made rapid progress in this area, they will be appropriately rewarded, and this will tell the Ministry of Rites to arrange a special fund for this purpose. In addition, you can also help them to get higher wages from their employers, after all, as people who have accepted the high civilization of China, they can't be generalized with those ignorant people, and it is also reasonable for them to get a higher salary, as for those employers, the government can compensate them in this regard, such as preferential taxes. ”

Then he added.

"The Emperor Shengming!"

The envoy hurriedly said.

Of course, he actually knows this, and now it is nothing more than institutionalization through the emperor, otherwise it is useless for him to do what he wants, after all, he is just an indoctrination envoy, and he is not a competent official, and those plantation owners have no obligation to listen to him, why should he give high wages to believers? But now with the Emperor's Decree, it is different with tax incentives, and once those female plantation workers live a good life, they will definitely become role models.

Of course, this is just a small thing.

Missionary work has always taken a long time, and it is only a few years, and this thing is not good for the first generation, at least the next generation to really be effective.

In fact, even if you don't preach here, it's not a big deal, a total of four million natives, and most of them are women, even the men are still underage, at this time the slave trade in Zhennan Province is still very prosperous, hundreds of thousands of natives are plundered and sold every year, and when these men grow up, it is estimated that they should almost be caught in various ways to be slaves in the Ming Dynasty, so that these nations will soon disappear.

As for those women, that one belongs to the ranks of integration, at this time, those indigenous women are all casual, and because this is the territory directly under the Ming Dynasty after all, the women here and the children born by the Han are considered Han people, so how can the men in the mainland who come here to pan for gold still be able to control it?

It can be said that every Ming plantation owner here has a post-gong.

In other words, this is also an important attraction of coming to Nanyang to pan for gold, although those indigenous women are not beautiful, but the problem is that there are enough to choose from, in fact, those indigenous women are not too ugly, they are much better than, especially for those low-level people in China who have no education, no relationship and no technology, go to Zhennan Province to get a colonial certificate casually, go to the bank to borrow a start-up capital, circle a piece of land, and hire a group of indigenous women to plant......

Whatever you plant.

Spices, rubber, sugar cane, and even rice can be planted directly, in those volcanic ash places in this area, it can be said that no matter what seeds are sprinkled are guaranteed to bear fruit, the rice is three crops a year, and with high-yield seeds, a random acre of land will get a yield of 2,000 catties a year.

This is like picking up for nothing compared to China.

Then guard a large area of their own plantation, nothing to give some benefits casually, and lure the indigenous women in their own plantations to engage in another form of planting, that kind of life is also very comfortable, saying that at this time, most of the indigenous women in Zhennan Province are seriously lacking in male comfort, even if they don't seduce, they can take the initiative to seduce their employers, aside from aesthetic problems, it is simply a man's paradise here.

Otherwise, the common people in China still don't like to run here, but it is very attractive to have such benefits.

Especially those veterans of the Ming army who served in this area, because they are more familiar with the situation than people in China, many people from poor backgrounds choose to stay after retiring, they don't even need loans, and the booty looted here during the service alone is enough for them to buy land and become big landlords, guarding dozens and hundreds of indigenous women.

"Even if we can't conquer their hearts,"

Emperor Yang paused for a moment, and then said, "You can also leave our seeds!" (To be continued.) )