Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Problem of Indigenous People

"Hehehe, the teacher said and laughed, diligence and thrift can keep the family, and thrift is the king! The same is true for the development of our big family of the Chinese People's Army! Therefore, the government affairs yuan must be controlled by a thrifty person like the teacher, if I think I spend money like this and always spend money lavishly, I am afraid that it will not be long before this family will fail!" Huo Shan said with a smile.

"Okay, let's not talk about that! I'm here today because I want to ask you something, and now we're about to take the island of Java and Sumatra, these two islands are the Jīng Hua of the Dutch East Indies! It is rich in resources and has a large population, among which the population of Java Island alone is as high as fifteen million, and almost all of them are indigenous except for nearly a million Chinese, how are you going to deal with them, won't it be the same as before?"

Hearing his words, Huo Shan's face also became calm, and after taking a sip of the tea on the table, he slowly asked, "Is there a better way for the teacher?"

Looking at his disciple's already cold face, Huang Sheng couldn't help but sigh secretly! Although he also knew that these guys who had slaughtered countless Nanyang Chinese should be killed! But before that, the Huo family army led by Huo Shan had already swept away tens of millions of Nanyang natives, which was a hundred times more cruel than Bai Qikeng's killing of 400,000 Zhao State soldiers, and it still caused some criticism within the Huo Family Military Administration! Of course, these people are mainly those foreign talents recruited from outside, as well as honest and honest officials who have been retained from within the Qing court, and they are deeply influenced by the Confucian ideas of 'humility, forgiveness, and moderation' that have been passed down in China for thousands of years, and they are not as illiterate as the soldiers of the Huo family, and they have been educated from the very beginning by Huo Shan's idea of 'a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye'! Therefore, in the Nanyang operation, they did not advocate large-scale killing like the Huo family's army, but insisted on the means of education, just like the assimilation of the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and the Xiongnu by the Chinese civilization in history. Of course, in the Huojiajun regime, which is more like a military government, there are still very few people who think like this, far less than the majority, but this is indeed a different voice within the Government Affairs Yuan, and it cannot be ignored!

However, Huo Shan's prestige in the Huo family's army was too high, and ordinary people didn't dare to talk about it in front of him, as for Huo Long and Huo Shi, they didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the young master's method of dealing with these Nanyang indigenous monkeys! After all, although there are few people in this matter, and there are not many people who have this viewpoint, if one is not handled well, it will easily cause the centrifugal detachment of the internal personnel, after all, Huo Jiajun's regime has only been established for a year, and he is really too young! Nothing can be taken lightly!

"Shan'er, I admit that those Nanyang natives should indeed be killed, but after all, this is a population of tens of millions, and killing too much is really hurting the peace, and killing is not the only way to solve the problem! We can also achieve the same goal through other methods, such as: education, immigration, etc.!" Huang Sheng didn't know what he should say for a while! Although he also knew that Huo Shan's current Nanyang policy was the best way to solve the current overpopulation of the Nanyang natives and the acute ethnic contradictions, and at the same time to avoid the hidden danger of territorial division in the future, as the prime minister, he had to proceed from the perspective of the overall situation and comprehensively consider the attitudes of all the personnel within the country! After all, now Huo Jiajun was already paying attention to mínzhǔ internally, not dúcái!

"Don't worry, teacher! There are indeed too many more than 10 million natives, I will give them a way to live this time! Of course, on the premise that they don't resist our rule!" Huo Shan said with a faint smile.

Looking at the calm look on his disciple's face, Huang Sheng didn't expect him to agree so happily, and he couldn't believe it for a while!

"What you said is true?" Huang Sheng asked again with some confusion. He knew that this disciple of his own, although he was not very old, was very assertive when it came to problems, and he was not a person who could easily compromise!

"Don't worry, teacher! Since I promised, I will definitely do it!" Huo Shan assured again.

"Okay! In that case, I won't say anything more!" He still believed in his disciple's character! Huang Sheng got the result he wanted, and he didn't want to talk about this somewhat heavy topic anymore!

The three of them sat together and talked about many issues related to the internal development of the Huo Jiajun, and Huang Sheng took Zhan Tianyou to say goodbye and left!

Seeing the figures of the two disappear into the distance, Huo Shan returned to his study, sat down, and poured himself a cup of tea! After taking a sip in his hand, he let out a long breath! Although he had long known that after the formation of zhèngfǔ, there would definitely be different voices, but it only took a year to appear, and the call against his Nanyang policy still surprised Huo Shan! However, he didn't want to interfere too much, after all, with the development of society and the popularization of education, there was no longer a market for dúcái's rule! Moreover, too much interference in the administrative policy of zhèngfǔ can easily attract dissatisfaction!

"Young Master, have you really decided to just agree to the Prime Minister?" Huo Lei, who had been standing by and listening for a long time just now, asked with some hesitation, he knew that the young master was not a person who compromised easily!

"Hehe, Leizi! There is also a reason why I promised the teacher, now the development of the islands is in urgent need of labor, and these indigenous populations are the best supplement! When the development of Nanyang is completed in five years and ten years, if they can survive from the heavy manual labor, then there will be nothing for them to live, and I believe that there will not be many people left by then!" Huo Shan said slowly with a cold expression.

As a matter of fact, Huoshan never thought of exterminating the more than 10 million indigenous people from the very beginning! Because the islands of the South Seas are basically in a state of wilderness, and labor is needed for the construction of railways, the laying of roads, the construction of ports and cities, and the construction of water conservancy and the development of farmland! The most important thing is that Huo Shan has taken a fancy to the southern part of Borneo Province, the northeastern part of Sumatra, and the southern part of the island of New Guinea, which are still large plains that are still swamps! These pieces of land cover an area of nearly 600,000 square kilometers or more, and although most of them are now mainly swampy lowlands, as long as Huo Jiajun develops them, they will be the best and most fertile, and they will be able to reach the best and most fertile land that can be harvested three times a year! In his previous life, Indonesia did not develop and utilize these places, but Huo Shan did not want to let them go! He clearly knew that agriculture, especially grain, was important to a country! Especially at the end of the 19th century, when this material was still relatively poor, there were no high-yield varieties, and large-scale mechanization existed, grain was an out-and-out strategic material!

In order to achieve this goal, in the absence of machinery and equipment, only with sufficient manpower can his idea become a reality, but the current speed of immigration is too slow, and it costs a lot of wages to develop with domestic Han immigrants.

Moreover, after the development of these lands, it will also attract landless or landless farmers in China to immigrate to Nanyang, so why not!

It was with these considerations that Huo Shan agreed to the teacher's request!

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It was completely dark outside, but in the Liangguang Governor's Palace, located in the north of Guangzhou, there were still faint lights flickering, showing that the owner of the house had not rested yet!

"Father, it's been almost half a year, why doesn't the Huo family still have any letter at all?" Zhang Mingqi looked at his expressionless father sitting on the Taishi's chair, and couldn't help but ask anxiously!

It is no wonder that he is like this, and now the single line of the Fuzhou-Hangzhou Railway connecting Fujian and Zhejiang has been opened to traffic! Not only is the operation in good condition, but the amount of money he has earned has far exceeded his original estimate! Now, as the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang and the Huo family have begun to survey the new railway lines in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, the greedy officials of the neighboring provinces, who have already been stimulated by the silver in vain, have begun to hand over to the governors or governors of the provinces, openly or covertly, to discuss the possibility of cooperating with the Huo family to build the railway!

Because the Huo family is not Westerners, there is no suspicion of betraying the country! Moreover, the silver that falls into their hands every year is a real benefit! These moths can't be moved!

Although Zhang Shusheng was born in the landlord class, he was indeed a representative figure of the Westernists who supported the policy of 'taking middle school as the body and Western learning as the use'! Moreover, he once shouted out that "cultivating talents in the academy and discussing politics in the parliament," "abolishing the imperial examination," and "rejuvenating the people's rights," etc., were enlightened ministers who seemed to be extremely acute in this era!

Therefore, he is still very supportive of the construction of railways, the facilitation of transportation, and the development of the local economy! Moreover, when he sent his son to contact the Huo family, he really had the idea of building a railway in Liangguang! However, he looked at the problem too simply, and he was too self-righteous! With only 30 percent of the shares per year and the annual profit dividends from the operation of the railway, he wanted the Huo family to spend tens of millions of taels of silver to build the road! This obviously regarded the Huo family as a fool! Moreover, it was far from satisfying the greedy appetite of the young master Huo! That's why the railroad was built!