"Jia Duhu and Hongyi are gone, I'm really afraid that there will be chaos in the future."

It was almost dusk, and Jia Yifan's ship had already disappeared into the sea, and it was the last group of warships that sailed out of the port at this time. In the shipyard of Pulin Harbor, a young shipwright looked at the distant shadow of the ship and muttered with a sad face. Jia Yifan did not leave office, but the entire Luzon Protectorate was abolished, and the garrison red clothes were also transferred, and Luzon was no longer in a state of military control.

"It's hard to say, the whole South Seas is not peaceful......"

Thinking that when he entered the port, the dock was crowded, all crusading against some "Manila", and Zhong Sanri also had palpitations. The Luzon Rebellion took place before he went to Lisbon, and the background was not known to him, but he had heard of conflicts between the indigenous Luzon natives, including the Chinese who had lived here before the Anglo-Chinese occupation of Luzon, and the new immigrants.

At that time, Pulin was still called Manila, and the Chinese in Luzon who lived in that era were holding the thighs of the Spaniards. After the Anglo-Chinese occupation of Luzon, "Manilans" became the name of the old Chinese by the new immigrants.

This title has a very strong sense of contempt, when the British and Chinese attacked Manila, most of the local Chinese still resisted with the Spaniards, but the Spaniards never regarded them as their own people, and even in order to prevent them from giving the British and Chinese as internal responses, they also raised butcher knives and killed the Chinese blood in a river.

This history has faded into oblivion, and the term "Manilan" is rarely mentioned, but with the rise of new immigrants and the growing grip of colonial corporations and the state, many contradictions have been squeezed out of the water, and the name has been ripped out.

After the Luzon Rebellion, the term "Manilan" was added with derogatory connotations such as "rebels", "ungrateful unfilial sons", and "extravagant aliens" to refer to those old Chinese immigrants with rebellious tendencies, and then extended to all Luzon except new immigrants. It is these people who emphasize that they are "Luzon", and in the words, they are the original owners of this land.

"Are you talking about Malacca? It has nothing to do with here, the chaos four years ago, who doesn't understand the truth that it is all a family, then it is not a person. Why don't you hurry up and nail the board? What the do you want you to do! Disorderly? Back then, the Holy Dao Master raised troops to fight the people, so the chaos came. What chaos can be tolerated in this world now? ”

An old shipwright spoke, the first half talking to Zhong Sanri, and the second half reprimanding the young shipwright.

The old shipwright's tone was rather disrespectful. didn't wear a gorgeous dress, and at first glance, he knew that it was the nobleman's Zhong Sanri, and Zhong Sanri didn't care about it. Let's not say that the distinction between the noble and the low in this era is already very light, let's just say that this old shipwright, who has already set up a large manor outside Pulin City, has more than ten local tenant farmers under his hands, and working in the shipyard is just nostalgic for the old business.

When we talked about the price of repairing ships before. More than 40 years ago, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the old man's family was still a registered shipwright under the Admiral Yamen of the Manchu Dynasty and lived on Nanao Island.

At the beginning of the year, the Anglo-Chinese Navy fought with the Manchu Qingshui Division in Sanpeng, and after the war, the old man's family repaired the Anglo-Chinese warship, and since then they have "served" the Yinghua. To this day, the old man still remembers a string of naval bosses: Xiao Sheng, Hu Hanshan, Bai Yanding, and even met the Holy Dao Emperor who came to Nanao to meet Xiao Sheng. Today's Navy Chief Lu Hanshan was still a stunned boy at that time......

Relying on the ship repair business of the Anglo-Chinese Navy, the old man's family got the first pot of gold. After that, Anglo-Chinese fought with Spain for Luzon. The family continued to serve in the Anglo-Chinese Navy and moved to Luzon after the war. Over the past few decades, he has earned his current family business step by step by relying on hard work, which is not a big fortune, but it is not only well-off.

Although this old man was honest and straightforward, and he was completely different from his father, Zhong Sanri felt very kind to him, and there was something very similar between this old shipwright and his father. …,

Zhong Sanri was half chatting, half curious and asked what the article was about the Luzon Rebellion. The old shipwright said with a look of hatred: "Fight in the nest!" I have never known only to fight in the nest! The fight is full of life and death, and I don't look at who is pushing them behind them, and what they are fighting. ”

The ingenuity of the old ship is at the bottom, but the life circle is not limited to the bottom, and the changes in Luzon can be seen in the eyes, the cause of the riots back then. He made it clear in a few words.

The conflict between the old immigrants and the new immigrants was only part of the chaos four years ago, and the more direct cause was actually the contradiction between the colonial companies and the local industry and commerce, and if it was bigger, there was also the contradiction between the central government and the Luzon localities.

More than 20 years ago, the crown prince Li Kezai had intervened in the affairs of Luzon, and the latter two contradictions had already appeared, and Zhou Ning, the governor of Luzon at that time, was directly removed by the emperor.

Because he realized that the struggle between the bureaucracy and the colonial companies had a great impact on Luzon, the emperor also made adjustments to the governance of Luzon before the Anglo-Northern Expedition. On the one hand, it was upgraded to a temporary administrative province, that is, a provincial eastern court was set up to check and balance the local bureaucratic system. The Colonial Company, on the other hand, carried out the functions of the Western Court and retained the power of industrial and commercial taxation, while on the other hand, positioned the Governor as the administrator of justice and law and order.

How the former colonies were incorporated into Anglo-Chinese rule, Funan's experience is difficult to apply to Luzon, after all, there are hundreds of thousands of old Chinese immigrants, as well as tens of thousands of Spanish and Portuguese people, and nearly a million natives. With the addition of new immigrants, by the 40th year of the Holy Dao, the total population of Luzon had exceeded 4 million, far more than that of Funan, with a population of 700,000, and Boni, with a population of 500,000, while the other colonies, including Mingzhou and the 17 continents of Nanzhou, had a total population of less than 1 million, and Dongzhou had only three prefectures with a population of less than 200,000.

After the Northern Expedition, the emperor handed over the prison to the government office, and no longer personally managed the affairs of overseas colonies, and several prime ministers continued the emperor's policy, all believing that Luzon still put stability first, and the country did not change its system for the time being, but was deeply involved.

In this context, the conflict of interests between Luzon companies and local industry and commerce has become more and more intense. Prior to this, the majority of the shares of the Luzon Company had been transferred to the Western Company, and the equity was held in trust by the Government Affairs Hall, so the conflict entity was actually a conflict between the bureaucrats of the commercial office who wore the skin of the Luzon Company and the local small and medium-sized industrial class.

The Luzon bureaucracy revealed by Zhou Ning to Li Kezai has entered a new stage after more than ten or twenty years of development. The bureaucrats of the Commercial Bureau regarded Luzon as private land, and not only monopolized the industrial and commercial tax rights, but also secretly sold monopoly rights to enrich their own pockets. It was not the ordinary people who suffered the most, but the old Chinese who had long been rooted in Luzon. The bureaucracy still did not dare to go overboard, for fear of arousing the anger of the new immigrants, and the old Chinese were either in business or opening plantations, which was suitable for exploitation.

It stands to reason. The Luzon Eastern Academy, elected by the people, should stand up and check and balance the Luzon Company. However, the composition of the Luzon Eastern Court is problematic, and the new immigrants are less interested in politics and do not have deep roots. Older immigrants instead prevailed.

As a result, many of the Eastern Luzon Houses of Eastern Justice, who were born as old immigrants, reacted extremely violently, and instead of following the administrative process and pushing the governor to resolve the matter, they regarded themselves as locals, engaged in ethnic antagonism, put the responsibility on the new immigrants, and clamored for restrictions on the new immigrants. This in turn stimulated the new immigrants to expose the scars of the old immigrants during the Western occupation era. The conflict turned to the struggle between old and new immigrants.

The successive governors of Luzon mostly despised the old immigrants and favored the side of the new immigrants, coupled with the fact that stability was the first priority, and they were unwilling to touch the deep rights and interests of the matter, and the big stick mostly fell on the side of the old immigrants. This not only concealed the conflict between colonial companies and local interests, but also escalated ethnic tensions between old and new immigrants. The emperor had already taken charge of internal affairs, and several prime ministers were too busy with northern affairs to pay much attention to Luzon. The contradictions have been accumulating, and finally they have erupted four years ago. …,

"The official master of the Luzon company, the master of the East Courtyard. and the governor, who only thought about himself, and as a result, outsiders picked up the cheap. The Spaniards, the Dutch, and those natives who have opened their eyes and have scheming, can they be of the same mind as us? Of course, I wish there was a big chaos in Luzon, we haven't done it back with their blood on our hands. ”

"But the most hateful thing is the thugs who jumped out to burn and loot! It doesn't matter how you fight, the country will let you speak, let you parade the streets, and let you choose the hospital. Do you think this grievance is unbearable, how can you break the law if you find another place to live? also took human life and property seriously, Jia Du protected and killed well! Those thugs should be dealt with severely! ”

The old shipwright obviously came from reading official newspapers such as "Yinghua Newsletter" and Taoist newspapers such as "Yuexiu Times", and his mouth was closed to the state and national law.

"Flies don't stare at seamless eggs! I have so many problems. No wonder you are bewitched by outsiders! Those officials of the Luzon company are really hateful, cement is only one or three dollars for one hundred catties in Guangdong, and it costs two or five dollars here! Our family wants to build a cement building, and it costs dozens of taels! They all deserve to be struck by lightning! And those Manilans, it's better to die! In their eyes, we are the scourge that robbed them of their riches. ”

The young shipwright's emotions were heavier, and the old boatwright reprimanded: "The principles you learned in the Heavenly Temple and school since you were a child have been thrown to the bottom of the sea? No matter how bad the official is, doesn't there still be national law? Those Manilans are also our compatriots, and we can't generalize, and we shout and kill those who haven't done anything bad! ”

As far as he knew, there were also many problems in his father's coral state, including disputes between new and old immigrants, as well as disputes with neighboring states, as well as power struggles between the central government's legal officials stationed in various states and the governors of various states, but everyone could still negotiate and adjust under the framework of the two courts of Nanzhou. Why is there no peace in Luzon? Is it really because of the large number of people and the mixed number of people?

Xu Shan said casually: "I think it was because Lu Song was not in a game of chess in the imperial court, so this happened." On the one hand, the imperial court sent Jia Du to protect the strict punishment law, and on the other hand, it dissolved the Luzon Company and directly governed it, which was to be included in the chessboard. ”

Zhong Sanri shook his head and said: "When Jia Du escorted him away, there was still that incident on the dock, I think even if it is directly managed, the problem is still pressed below." Besides, Nanzhou and even Dongzhou, which is farther away, are still the trusteeship of the company, and they are not directly on the chessboard of the imperial court, so why didn't anything happen? ”

Xu Shan subconsciously said Zhong Sanri's thoughts: "That is, there are many people and mixed people, divided into different groups, each with its own interests and disadvantages, and there is no way." ”

Zhong Sanri sighed: "Then you mean, there is no way to solve this matter?" ”

As soon as the two discussed, the shipwright father and son didn't speak, and after listening to Zhong Sanri's emotion, the old shipwright also sighed: "I think that our Luzon and the imperial court are not close enough, it stands to reason that it is much tighter than the old era, the exchange of people and goods has never been broken, the government decree and the national law are the same here, and the Heavenly Temple and the imperial examination are also available, but I always feel that there is something missing......

The young shipwright answered: "I think it is the state officials of Luzon who should be scolded even more!" was raised by the Luzon company, and only knew that he voted against the direct management of Luzon in the National Yuan! ”

Zhong Sanri was stunned for a moment, his words made him vaguely sense, as if he had touched the edge of something, this thing was the real background of the Luzon Rebellion.

But he grabbed and scratched, but he couldn't catch this thing, and he had to give up. After all, he is not an investigator sent by the Political Affairs Hall, so there is no need to spend any energy on this matter.

After spending a few days in Pulin, hastily repairing the hull, the ship set off again, and on February 10, after nearly four months of trekking, the ship arrived at the Kowloon Bay Pier in Hong Kong, and Zhong Sanri and the Xu family father and son finally set foot on their hometown. …,

"It's really unlucky, I can't stop at Huangpu Port......"

The renovation of Huangpu Port, all overseas ships docked in Hong Kong, and there was still a long way from Hong Kong to Nanjing, which made Zhong Sanri, who was eager to fly back, complain.

"Train! The train is open! There are also buses, let's go by train! ”

"Got it? So fast? That thing...... Is it safe? ”

"Can't you ride in a carriage?

Seeing the latest news on the notice board at the pier, Xu Shan was extremely excited, and Zhong Sanri and Xu Gui were both curious and apprehensive. When they left, the railway from Hong Kong to Foshan via Dongguan and Guangzhou had just begun to be laid, but they did not expect it to be completed in less than four years.

In the 28th year of the Holy Road, the first civil railway in Yinghua was built, from Longmen to Wusong through Fengxian, with a total length of 50 kilometers, which opened the curtain of the era of railway construction in Yinghua. But it didn't come anytime soon, as a series of issues had to be addressed, including operational scheduling, locomotive and carriage testing, and the construction of stations and supporting facilities.

It was not until 36 years that rich experience was accumulated on this railway, and the railways from Beijing to Tanggu, Longmen to Zhenjiang, and Wuchang to Nanyang were built. On the Lingnan side, because the construction of waterways and straightways was mature in the early days, I didn't think that the railways had much benefit, until several railways showed great benefits, and then they were in a hurry to get started.

"You can get to Guangzhou in an hour and a half, three flights a day, the ticket price is one or two hundred wen per person, and the goods are priced according to the size of the ......"

Seeing such a notice again, the apprehension dissipated instantly, it was faster and cheaper than a horse-drawn carriage, and the newspaper had already said that it was much more comfortable to take a train than a horse-drawn carriage, and the three of them immediately agreed on it.

"Just look at what has changed in Nanjing in the past few years......

Zhong Sanri thought that the current Nanjing, including Hong Kong, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Panyu and Foshan counties, is the heart of the entire Lingnan, with a population of one million. In the past few decades, the towns have changed with each passing day, with factories and people, which is completely different from the situation of the past thousand years.

Hong Kong railway station in Dapeng, the three of them were very lucky, bought the latest train ticket, such as Grandma Liu into the Grand View Garden, into the long platform such as the wall removed, looking at the thick black railway on the sleeper, with gravel as the bottom, to the left and right endlessly, paving a straight avenue, even if the three of them in the British and Chinese country is also considered to have seen the world's figures, but also invariably yo ho.

When the front of the steam locomotive roared slowly and drove slowly, hundreds of people on the dock invariably retreated backwards, all with shocked expressions, and several experienced old passengers stood outside the yellow line drawn on the stone bricks, and glanced at the group of hillbillies with disdain.

The tall, swarthy locomotive, with its chimney and huge wheels, pulled eight carriages to a halt. Two passenger cars, six wagons, the carriages are all tied with iron bars, the difference is only that the passenger cars have glass windows, the trucks do not, and the goods are also on the people at the same time. As soon as the railway opened, most of the passengers were merchants, all of whom carried a large number of goods like Zhong Sanri and others. Zhong Sanri and others felt that the ticket price was cheap, but ordinary people could not afford to sit down.

On the carriage, there are two simple benches against the window, which is also the layout of the carriage, everyone is used to it, but this space is much more spacious than the carriage. Before they drove, Zhong Sanri and the others chatted with the passengers on the left and right, this era is still the same as the old world, and when they go out, people will be much more cordial to each other.

"The railway industry should be returned to the imperial court!"

"How can the imperial court compete with the people for profit casually!?"

What to talk about? Of course, it is a big thing to chat, and Chinese also like to talk about politics, and opening their mouths is the big picture. As soon as I heard that Prime Minister Song had suddenly become seriously ill and submitted his resignation to the emperor, the political hall and the two courts were making a fuss about the candidate for succession, and there was a controversy somewhere in the carriage. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )