Chapter 290: Opening the province of Luzon
The Luzon Islands had been brought under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty at this time. Because of the experience of expansion, when attacking Luzon, the administrative officials were already ready in Taiwan.
The Spaniards were defeated, and the Luzon Islands had been fully taken over by the Ming Dynasty. Ming administrators also arrived in Luzon and set about destroying the indigenous ruling structure. Of course, the meals have to be eaten one bite at a time, and many islands are currently managed by indigenous people. However, on the island of Luzon itself, such a policy was the first to be implemented, that is, the original indigenous rulers were kicked away, and the Ming government directly administered the indigenous people. At the same time, it is supplemented by some indigenous people or Han Chinese living in Luzon to communicate with the natives.
In order to protect the safety of the Han people in Luzon and not be violated by the natives. Immediately after the Ming government began to administer in Luzon, a strict criminal law was introduced, and those natives who committed crimes against the Han people would be severely punished. At the same time, it is to let the military cooperate and garrison troops in various places, while protecting the safety of the Han people, while strictly controlling the weapons of destruction in the hands of the natives. Bows and firearms are not allowed to be possessed by the natives, and at the same time, they will suppress the natives who do not obey the discipline.
There were certainly natives who did not submit to discipline, especially since the Ming government administered Luzon directly, rather than through indigenous rulers. However, the resistance of the natives could not shake the dominance of the Ming Dynasty over Luzon, and it had nothing to do with virtue. Rather, it is crushed in strength.
The natives are uneducated, unproductive, and lazy. If the Ming Dynasty wants to suppress the natives who are in rebellion, as long as they invest troops to exterminate them, as long as those natives are not blindly engaged in guerrilla warfare, it is relatively easy to exterminate them. However, the natives were not very cultured, and they did not have a complete theory of guerrilla warfare.
This is the crushing of the height of civilization.
Virtue, power, and wisdom are the three major factors that the ancients summed up to determine the victory of the war, but the natives are much worse than the Ming in terms of virtue and power, or wisdom. So no matter how these natives rebelled. They are destined to have their arms twisted into their thighs.
Of course, at this time, in the process of foreign expansion of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao had already clearly requested that no massacres, rape (harmony) fornication, robbery of civilians and other behaviors that damage yin morality.
But for those natives who rebelled against the rule of the Ming Dynasty, it was different. This world is the law of the jungle, and exterminating the natives who do not obey the rule will not damage the yin virtue.
Therefore, those natives who rebelled against the rule of the Ming Dynasty were destined to be exterminated by the Ming Dynasty. Their equipment and military qualities are too poor. It was simply vulnerable in front of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty. And these natives are also not united, and they are easy to buy and lazy.
The investigation team sent by Zhu Youxiao stayed in Taiwan for more than half a month before leaving for Luzon because of bad sea conditions on the way.
When I arrived, it was already the end of the seventh lunar month.
After the investigation team arrived, they immediately conducted a relevant investigation into the massacre of the Han people during the Wanli period. It hasn't been long since the past, and many people still have deep memories. After investigation, the investigation bureau immediately uncovered a large number of indigenous rulers who had participated in the massacre, as well as a number of indigenous people who participated in the massacre.
However, the Spaniards were the masterminds of the massacre of the Han Chinese, although many Spaniards had already been transferred back to their homeland. Especially that Spanish Governor in the Philippines.
Since he was transferred back, he naturally took out his anger at the current Spanish governor in the Philippines, and he had to pull a few out of the top tank to comfort the slaughtered Han people in the heavenly spirits. At the same time, it is also necessary to tell everyone through practical actions that the massacre of Han people will not end well.
In order to arrest those who participated in the massacre, the government issued a reward order to encourage the natives to expose the natives who participated in the massacre, and there was a reward for exposing the exposition.
All of a sudden, the greed of the natives exploded. Soon, the government received a large number of revelations and reports, and the government transferred troops to various places to arrest them. Whether or not they participated in the massacre, let's catch it first.
After being caught, they will be verified one by one.
After all, the massacre was a mass event, and it is relatively easy to verify. Moreover, these indigenous people who participated in the massacre all have a common age characteristic, that is, they are not young.
After some arrests. More than 3,000 were arrested and released, and more than 7,000 were identified as participating in the massacre, and they were taken to the outskirts of Manila one by one to be shot.
Because of the large number of indigenous people who were executed, the execution ground outside Manila was soon 'bloody'. It was a terrifying sight to see the natives.
Hundreds of Spanish colonists who were pulled out of the top tank were investigated and brought back to the capital, and these Spanish colonists will be beheaded in the capital to give an explanation to the Ming people in the mainland.
While the investigation team was thoroughly investigating the massacre, a gold exploration team also came to Luzon, where they established a 'General Directorate of Gold Exploration in the South Seas' and began to explore for gold everywhere in the South Seas, and under the protection of the army, to Borneo.
Borneo is currently unoccupied by colonists, and the land of Borneo, although relatively barren, has gold. At the same time, there was oil, and the future Brunei was located in Borneo. In addition to this, Borneo has the largest tropical rainforest outside of the Brazilian rainforest.
The colonization of Borneo was also included in the navy's plans, and even if the land was poor, it was easy to open up some strongholds along the coast and then occupy the islands. In such a large first place, even if the land is barren, there are many resources. The coastal areas are relatively easy to access, and it is impossible for Han Chinese immigrants to Borneo to mingle with the mountain poor.
Gold mining was a matter for the central government, while the local colonial interests of Luzon were for the local government to consider. They took over the Spanish colonization of Luzon, and by this time many plantations had developed in the Luzon Islands. Many of these plantations were Han Chinese, but many of them became Spanish after the massacres during the Wanli period.
The Spaniards were finished, and the plantations became the official assets of the Ming Dynasty.
At the same time, there are still a number of Han plantations in Luzon, and the plantations owned by these Han people will naturally not be touched. But the plantations owned by the natives have suffered.
The Ming government directly introduced a tax policy for indigenous plantation owners, imposing heavy taxes on indigenous plantation owners, and never giving up until these plantation owners were made into poor B.
These plantations can be taxed directly by the government. It can produce a lot of pepper, rice, cotton and sugar cane every year.
In these years, cotton was also grown in Luzon. Of course, the tropics are also full of things like coconuts.
For Daming, pepper is indeed a thing that can make money, and there is a relatively broad market in China. It is also possible to grow pepper, but what Daming needs more is rice and cotton.
So there is a difference in the official taxes levied on plantations, with rice and cotton plantations collecting the lowest taxes, and sugar cane plantations collecting higher taxes. Pepper plantations, on the other hand, have the highest taxes. Such a tax policy is mainly to encourage rice and cotton planting, of course, it is not a pole to kill the pepper planting industry, but to balance the income of pepper planting and rice and cotton, so that the difference between the income of planting one acre of pepper and planting one acre of rice and cotton will not be too large, so as not to plant too much pepper.
If you don't eat pepper, you can't die, but if you don't have food or cotton clothes to keep out the cold, you will die.
At the same time, the Han people were encouraged to cultivate more plantations, and the government introduced a three-year tax exemption policy for new plantations, and plantations of less than 300 acres did not need to pay any fees. If the area exceeds 300 acres, the land purchase fee needs to be paid to the government, and the larger the plantation area, the higher the purchase price, but it is not more than the normal price range.
Because Luzon was a place where indigenous people lived, the policy adopted here was a policy of high degree of land annexation by the Han people, so the imperial court was not afraid of land annexation issues.
Naturally, this cannot be done in the local area, and the high degree of annexation of local land by landlords will cause serious social problems, but in Nanyang it is a different matter.
After all, Nanyang is located in the tropics, and the indigenous people eat little. And you don't need to wear any cotton clothes to keep out the cold. There is not much land annexation, but the indigenous people do not develop the land. A large amount of land is left undeveloped.
As long as Luzon was developed, it was obvious that the imperial court's fiscal revenue would increase again. The most important thing is that after the resources here are developed, it can provide more necessary resources for the people of Daming to live, so that more people of Daming can survive in this world of continuous natural disasters.
The defeat of the Spaniards was apparently tragic, and the Philippine governor was pulled out of the tank with a group of Spanish officers. Soon he was escorted to the capital.
When this group of Spaniards was escorted to the capital, it was already the ninth lunar month.
The snow in Yan'an Mansion has been flying for three months, and it only stops in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, which is already the end of autumn for another year. Because the rural labor force in Yan'an Province was mobilized to work on the construction site, the people of Yan'an Province earned food and wages. Enough to survive the cold winter and the coming year.
The locust plague in Jinan Province was also successfully extinguished with the mobilization of the government, and more than 200,000 people from Jinan in Shandong Province also migrated to the northeast region. At the same time, Shandong is a coastal province after all, and at this time, shipping is constantly developing, and the local food supply is not a problem at all, and it is impossible to have a shortage of food supply.
The disaster situation on both sides was settled, and Zhu Youxiao was busy building his summer resort in Chengde, and he would move his position as soon as he opened next year.
Zhu Youxiao felt that he had to run away, because the apocalypse explosion should be about to happen! He couldn't remember exactly when the Apocalypse Bang was. But it should be the way it has been in the past two years, it seems that the apocalypse explosion killed more than 20,000 people in Wang Gongchang in history, and the explosion killed a prince prematurely.
This made Wang Gong Factory a forbidden place for Zhu Youxiao not to go, and at the same time, Zhu Youxiao gritted his teeth and started a forced demolition project in Wang Gong Factory.
In the name of the construction research institute, Zhu Youxiao ordered the expropriation of the land of Wang Gongchang. He paid for the land requisition, and he gave it at the general market price.
As a result, the entire Wang Gong factory was requisitioned by Zhu Youxiao, and those who were unwilling to relocate were also forcibly demolished by Zhu Youxiao's order. At the same time, he planned to run away, because Wang Gongchang was still too close to the palace. If there's a big explosion there, what if something falls off your head and you die?
So Zhu Youxiao asked people to go to Chengde to build a summer resort, and it didn't need to be too luxurious, anyway, if they could live and work, they planned to run away in the spring of next year.
As for Wang Gong's factory, it was fenced off by Zhu Youxiao, and it became a forbidden place for no one to enter, lest a big explosion occur and kill the people.
Zhu Youxiao's land acquisition in Wang Gongchang is obviously a thankless act. At the time of the demolition, the magnates complained that their building in the Wang Gong factory was not included in the land requisition subsidy. The people also complained, but not very strongly.
In the future, if there is an explosion in Wang Gong's factory, it is obvious that some people will say that Zhu Youxiao has angered the heavens or something. This urine Zhu Youxiao had expected it a long time ago, but he did it anyway.
If he didn't know, there was nothing to say, since he knew that Wang Gongchang was going to have a strange explosion, he couldn't watch tens of thousands of people being blown up and killed right under his nose, right?
In this year, the Ming Dynasty was really full of disasters and difficulties, and Zhu Youxiao could only minimize the losses and avoid any man-made disasters under natural disasters.
The courtiers didn't quite understand what the emperor was going to do in Wang Gongchang, but Zhu Youxiao was not a mediocre emperor after all, if he wanted to engage in any hobbies, he would be free to take some land.
"Your Majesty, the Spanish Governor General in the Philippines, and hundreds of his generals, large and small, were escorted to Beijing yesterday. At this time, it is almost autumn, and a few days later is a good time to ask for a cut. Xu Zhaokui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, reported in the early days.
Xu Zhaokui was a non-partisan official and did not join the Han Emperor's party. This is the only one in the court where the Manchu Dynasty is full of officials of the Han Imperial Party, and a non-party official can still serve as a scholar.
The reason why Xu Zhaokui was able to gain a firm foothold was mainly because this person was able to enforce the law impartially, and the Criminal Department, as a judicial department, had a non-partisan official to serve as Shangshu It was still a good choice, so Zhu Youxiao left Xu Zhaokui behind.
"According to Aiqing's words, these Spanish barbarians will be beheaded and announced to the world, so as to comfort the 30,000 people who died tragically overseas." Zhu Youxiao made a decision without hesitation, these Spaniards can cut if they want. As the most civilized country in the world today, the Ming naturally has no diplomatic concerns about dealing with the Spaniards.
"Your Majesty." Xu Zhaokui immediately retreated into the queue.
"Your Majesty, since the imperial court has captured Luzon, I should open another province in the Ming Dynasty to facilitate jurisdiction." The officials of the ministry came out and suggested.
"Exactly." Zhu Youxiao agreed.
In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty opened Luzon Province and established a 'Luzon Special Administrative Province', and the reason why the word "special administration" was added was mainly because of the special situation in Luzon and the existence of a large number of indigenous people. At the same time, Zhu Youxiao also thought hard about the 'three products and nine grades' for the management of the natives, thus solving the problem of mixing Han and aborigines. (To be continued.) )