In the autumn of the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China, Pang Chunlai, the Duke of Liao, died of illness in Xiningbao, Yao County, Liaoning.

Posthumously crowned the King of Liao, and his nickname was Wenzheng.

The title of the king of Liao is not hereditary, and his descendants are reduced to the title of Duke of Liao.

Emperor Zhao seems to have remembered Li Banghua, and posthumously named Li Banghua the king of Ji'an, and the title of the king of this county is still not hereditary.

Regarding Li Banghua's posthumous seal, before Pang Chunlai died of illness, he could not give it casually. Because the Jishui officials are quite powerful, Li Banghua's fellow villagers are all over the government and the opposition, and there must be another king with a different surname to suppress him.

Another reason is that officials from other provinces have gradually come to the fore.

Anhui, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan, officials from these five provinces have been promoted through the imperial examination, and there are more and more inside and outside the court. Coupled with the officials from Hunan and Hubei, the number has already surpassed that of Jiangxi officials.

Although Jiangxi officials still hold the high positions of the cabinet and the court, the rank of the cabinet has been balanced, and the origins of local officials have also been balanced.

In the same year, Fei Ruhe's brother-in-law Yuan Yunlong returned to his hometown after illness in the cabinet minister's seat. There is one less cabinet minister from Jiangxi.

Zhang Bingwen, a cabinet minister from Anhui, has been sick and retired for many years, and he also died of illness this winter. At the age of 81, he was nicknamed Wenzhong.

In the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China, Zuo Xiaoliang, a cabinet minister from Jiangxi, suddenly suffered from a vicious illness and asked for a minister. Three requests and three resignations, Zhao Han agreed, and there was one less.

Liu Ziren, an old friend whom Zhao Han met in Hanzhu Academy, was white and fat, in good health, and sat firmly in the first and auxiliary seats.

This Shousuke-sama is relatively mediocre.

No matter what happens, they will first discuss with the ministers and agree on the opinions before submitting them to the emperor. Whenever Zhao Han changes the cabinet vote, no matter how outrageous the change is, the first assistant Liu Ziren will do it.

With such an unassertive first assistant, Zhao Han is actually very easy to use.

"Minister Zhang Xianzhong, meet His Majesty the Emperor!"

In the Yingmin Palace, Zhang Xianzhong saw the emperor again, but this time with a completely different identity.

Zhao Han said happily: "Give me a seat." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zhang Xianzhong is much more well-behaved than before, and his attitude is correct.

This gentleman was already sixty years old, and he served as the governor of Semarang for a long time, until he wiped out several surrounding countries, and was recalled to the court to listen to it.

Zhang Xianzhong first sent troops to occupy the coastal plain of Bamaran, continued to absorb Han immigrants, and took the initiative to demarcate the border with the Sultan of Cirebon, but two years later he suddenly attacked Cirebon. Moreover, he used a strategy to send soldiers to disguise themselves as merchants in advance, and after entering the city, he quickly took it from inside and outside.

When the news broke, the other sultans were shocked.

The Sultan of Buryang (Bandung), the closest to Cirebon, gathered troops in a panic to prepare for war. Zhang Xianzhong also released the news that he was going to destroy Boliangan, but he flicked a shot and secretly led his troops back to attack the Yogyakarta Sultanate south of Semarang.

The Sultan of Yogyakarta was defenseless, and the country of Xili Lake was destroyed.

The rest of the sultans were horrified, and the Sultan of Surabaya even took the initiative to abdicate to support the Han puppets to come to power, and asked Emperor Zhao to make Surabaya a governorate, provided that the imperial court could not send officials and garrisons.

At the suggestion of his son, Zhang Xianzhong did not continue to fight, but developed steadily for several years, killing a large number of Javanese nobles. Massacre the nobles, burn books, destroy temples, stir up rebellions, send troops to quell the rebellion, and continue the massacre...... After a few years, people who knew the Javanese script were killed by him, and the believers could not even find temples to worship.

In Central Java alone, Zhang Xianzhong killed tens of thousands of people!

Even the Han people in Semarang were frightened by Zhang Xianzhong, and the local clans converted to Buddhism one after another.

Last year, Zhang Xianzhong took Surabaya and slaughtered the non-Han nobles in the city, completing the unification of Central Java and East Java.

Zhao Han smiled kindly and asked, "Which yamen do you want to work in?" You can enter the governor's palace and stay in Nanjing, or you can be transferred to another place to be the governor. ”

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head and said: "Sixty years old, I can't kill anymore, and I can enjoy killing." Your Majesty asked me to go back to Taiwan, give me a magistrate to do, I have never been a civil official in my life. ”

Zhao Han flipped through the map of Taiwan and said: "In the coastal area south of the chicken coop, there is a large plain washed out by Lanyang Creek. The Taiwanese prefect organized immigrants there with the intention of indoctrining the local natives. But these natives were extremely fierce, and even killed two officials and a few immigrants. ”

Zhang Xianzhong said: "A little native, after killing." ”

Zhao Han said: "The prefect of Taiwan has sent troops to drive the local natives into the mountains. Nowadays, there are more and more immigrants there, and a large number of plains have been reclaimed as fertile land, but they are often attacked by the natives of the mountains. ”

"Your Majesty asked me to be an official there?" Zhang Xianzhong asked.

Zhao Han nodded and said: "There are nearly 10,000 immigrants there, and the imperial court plans to set up an official county." According to the name of the river, it is inappropriate to set it as Lanyang County, which already has Lanyang County on the edge of the Yellow River. I decided to change it to Yilan County, and you will go to Yilan County and live in the indigenous people around the county. ”

Zhang Xianzhong patted his chest and said: "Wrap it on me, I have a way to deal with the indigenous people in Taiwan." ”

The natives of Yilan County are the Kamalan people, and the first batch of Spanish colonists who landed, a total of 50 people, were killed by the Kamalan people. The Spanish governor was furious and sent troops and native Luzon soldiers to kill twelve Kamalans and burn seven Kamalan villages.

But the Kamalam were fierce and guerrilla, often burrowing into the mountains and waiting for an opportunity to descend to attack the enemy.

Spain had no choice but to abandon colonization and go further north to Keelung to build a castle.

Historically, there were Han Chinese in the Qing Dynasty who visited this place just to do business, and Xili Hutu was killed by the Kamalans. For the next 30 years, the Han Chinese immigrants fought on the frontier and even used muskets to repel the Kamarans, who were gradually assimilated into the Han Chinese.

Moreover, it was the initiative to seek assimilation, and the tribal leaders gave up hunting and learned farming techniques from the Han Chinese. Gradually, even in Chinese, the names imitate Han customs.

Zhang Xianzhong used to be the magistrate of the county, always vigilant and suppressed, as long as the Kamalan people were beaten, these natives would follow the example of the strong, and after a hundred or ten years, they would become no different from the Han people.

At noon, Zhang Xianzhong was left to eat and eat a working meal with the emperor in the Yingmin Palace.

In the afternoon, we left the Forbidden City and went to the Ministry of Rites to receive the reward.

A horse, a waist knife, and a musket are all good things, not ordinary goods, which can be regarded as family heirlooms, and Zhang Xianzhong grinned happily.

After Zhang Xianzhong left, the (former) Prince of Banten Ha Yi was received again.

"Minister Zhao Hongde greets Your Majesty!"

"Give a seat."

Just listen to Prince Hayi's self-proclaimedness, you know what his identity is now.

The King of Banten belonged to the old turtle, and he never died, not even sick.

In the face of the Han people's expansion centered on Coconut City, the king of Banten also pretended not to see it. seems to have been lying flat, but he has always refused to surrender the country, and even secretly supported the tribal leaders to grab land with the Han people.

As the friction became more and more intense, Prince Hayi couldn't stand it anymore, and finally launched a rebellion, and invited the governor of Coconut City to send troops as the leading party.

At this point, the kingdom of Banten was destroyed.

The prince of Banten, Hayi, was made a viscount and was granted the right to retain 1,000 acres of land, retain all royal property, and obtain the right to exploit a volcanic sulphur mine for 100 years.

This prince was very interesting, he sold thousands of acres of land to the Han Chinese, threw his fixed property and sulfur mines to his eldest son, and moved his family to the city of Nanjing, which haunted his soul, with other wives and concubines, children and floating wealth.

Just a few days ago, Zhao Han rewarded this person with a piece of land on the outskirts of the city and asked him to build a mansion at his own expense.

Prince Hayi thanked him for his kindness and asked the emperor to give him his surname.

So, the whole family changed their surname to Zhao.

His young son, who was not yet married, also asked the matchmaker to find a candidate and make a marriage contract with the daughter of a small official.

Then, this guy was away from home all day, nostalgic for Golan Washe. He even learned to be elegant, and he didn't know a few Chinese characters, so he actually went to participate in the literary meeting and followed the literati to visit famous prostitutes in the Xuanwu Lake painting boat.

Zhao Han asked, "Are you still used to living in Nanjing?" ”

Hayi ...... No, Zhao Hongde replied: "Nanjing is very good, much more comfortable than Wandan, and there are more places to play." ”

Zhao Han asked: "The last time you came to Nanjing to meet you, you still couldn't speak Chinese, but now you speak quite fluently." ”

Zhao Hongde replied: "The minister learned it in Java, often went to the coconut city to play, and invited a gentleman to teach him to write Chinese characters." I am a hundred times better than Javanese in Chinese things, Chinese is better than Javanese, and Chinese characters are better than Javanese characters. ”

"Qing Zhen is a loyal minister!" Zhao Han laughed.

Zhao Hongde immediately laughed, looking like An Legong's stupid appearance.

This thing dares to rebel and kill his father, of course, he is not a fool.

The other planes, the other sultans of Java, didn't end well. Only Zhao Hongde took the initiative to create his father's rebellion, beat Banten down and dedicated it to the Netherlands, and since then it has become a similar existence to Toast, and he has died happily for a lifetime, and even his descendants have been Dutch nobles for more than 200 years.

Now it's about the same, he feels that Wandan will be destroyed sooner or later, so it is better to take the initiative to destroy it himself, and get benefits by dedicating the country.

Isn't that what the benefits are coming?

He was made a viscount and kept the royal property, as well as the land and mines. With the property looted for many years, it is better to move the family to Nanjing to enjoy happiness than to stay in Banten and be afraid?

Zhao Hongde's dedication to the country filled the last gap, and the Nanjing court officially unified Java Island.

Locally, there are still Javanese nobles entrenched, but Han Chinese merchants and immigrants can use civil power to contend with them, and they don't even need to bother too much with the governor.

The post of Governor of Java will henceforth be established only one.

The Governor of Coconut City was abolished, the Governor of Semarang was abolished, and a new Governor of Java was established to control the whole island.

The Governor's Office is located in Coconut City (Jakarta), and large cities such as Banten, Semarang, and Surabaya are all managed by "Governors".

In the whole island of Java, spices, cane sugar and so on are still secondary, and its main role is to act as a big granary!

China can get a steady stream of rice from the island of Java to curb the continuous rise in food prices in the coastal areas.

Maybe in a few decades, through the indoctrination of immigrants, the province of Java will be established!