Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1639 Before the Great War (Part [-])
The so-called private affairs of high pragmatism are naturally related to Jinghua, and these few cases are the same.

The first incident came from southern Xinjiang, and it was related to two places: Longya City and Huzhou City, that is, Malacca City and Singapore in later generations.These two places are the key areas of the Nanyang Plan. Among them, Longya City is planned as the main commercial city in the Strait of Malacca, and Huzhou City is planned as the main port of the Nanyang Fleet in the future.

Huzhou City, the Singapore of the later generations, is a well-known commercial port city, and its development level stands out among the developing countries in ASEAN.Some people think that Singapore's success is mainly due to its geographical location, but this statement is actually somewhat biased.

Of course, the unique geographical location is an important factor for Singapore's economic rise, but if it can be successful only by geographical location, it is not the only one in the Strait of Malacca that also has an advantageous geographical location. Why is it the only one that succeeds? ?

There are actually many analyzes of the reasons for Singapore's success that are quite clear. There are not only reasons for God's favor, but also factors such as implementing the correct development path and firmly grasping opportunities. There is no need to say more here.However, Singapore's economy has already had some hidden worries before Gao Yushi's crossing, which is why Gao Yushi did not regard Huzhou City as a major economic development city, but as the main military port of the Nanyang Fleet.

Due to population growth, later generations of Singapore had to spend a lot of money and countless energy on fresh water supply. Gao Pragmatism was not so interested in investing in these unnecessary costs.As long as it is not regarded as a major economic city, but only as a military port city, its population will definitely not expand like that, and the pressure on water supply will definitely not be so huge.

But Dragon Tooth City is not the case. The terrain of this area is relatively flat, mostly plains, but there are some hills in the east, and the water resources are also abundant enough.It has the Ninggi River in the west, the Malacca River in the middle, and the Jishan River in the east. All three rivers flow into the Strait of Malacca.

Of course, because of the high-practical order, Nanjiang has renamed almost all "Malacca" to "Dragon Tooth". Therefore, in the exchange of various documents in Jinghua, the Malacca River has become the Longya River, and the Malacca Strait has become The Longya Strait and even the Malay Peninsula have been changed back to the Chinese name "Longya Peninsula".

There are rivers on three sides of a coastal city, which not only means that the water resources are sufficient to support the rise of a large city, but also means that its transportation is convenient enough. This is definitely a huge advantage before the arrival of mechanized mass production, and now it is highly pragmatic to develop Dragon Tooth City And there are no internal constraints—after all, this is the largest city near the strait, so why not develop it?

As for Huzhou City, there are only some locals from the original Johor Sultanate on this island. Not only is the population small, but the culture is also far behind.When Jinghua's huge fleet and musket armies with thousands of sails overwhelmed the sea went south, awakening their memories of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty more than a hundred years ago, they were easily included in the bag.As for the locals, Gao Ruichu, adhering to the high pragmatic will, ordered them to be scattered and resettled in various parts of the Longya Peninsula.

However, this does not mean that Longya Peninsula is free of troubles, there are still troubles, and they are not small.What's the biggest problem?It's population and governance policy.

Jinghua has been implementing the Sinicization policy of "immigration plus naturalization" in southern Xinjiang. This policy is currently implemented well, but if you look closely, you will find some problems. The most critical and prominent problem is that Sinicization is not enough. balanced.

Looking at the entire southern Xinjiang, the areas with the highest degree of Sinicization are undoubtedly the northern and central parts of Annan, that is, from Huang Zhiting's "fiefdom" Haidong Mansion to Jingang in the middle, which has become the region with the highest degree of Sinicization in southern Xinjiang.

In this area, the generalized Han people (that is, the Han nationality and the Tong, Miao, Yao, etc. who migrated south from Guangxi, Yunnan and other places, as long as they can speak Chinese, they are collectively counted as the Han nationality in southern Xinjiang) and the naturalized Han people accounted for nearly [-]%.Considering that it took the region only a decade or so to get this far, that's pretty impressive.

However, the reason why this region can achieve such a high degree of Sinicization is not only due to effective policies, but also a bigger reason may lie in history.As we all know, Annan belonged to the territory of the Chinese dynasties for a long time in history, and returned to it for a period of time in the early Ming Dynasty.Later, although it was self-reliant, even the imperial examinations were almost copied from Ming Dynasty, and the scholars read Confucius and Mencius. It can be said that the culture of the upper class is completely Chinese culture, and Chinese characters are originally the official language.To promote Sinicization under such circumstances is of course more effective than half the effort.

However, it's different outside of this area.Although Myanmar, Nanzhang and other places were part of the "Three Propaganda and Six Reliefs" that year, Han culture had a profound influence on them, but after all, they did not reach the level of Annan. Annan is far behind.

Huang Zhiting and Gao Mengnan’s report on the work of southern Xinjiang submitted more detailed figures, indicating that the proportion of Sinicization in Nanzhang (generalized Han Chinese and naturalized Han Chinese in the total population) is only 11% (Arabic numerals and the concept of percentage have been introduced The ratio of Sinicization in Cambodia is only 7%; the ratio of Sinicization in southern Annan is only 9%; the ratio of Sinicization in Bago (southern Myanmar, because the north is nominally still a vassal state of Ming Dynasty) is also 7%; The highest rate is 16%, but it is mainly due to the influx of a large number of Han Chinese into Dingnan City, and the proportion of Sinicization in other parts of Siam is also very low, no more than 10%.

As a person who often laughed at the Indian caste system before time travel, the highly pragmatic policy of Sinicization in southern Xinjiang is not to create a hierarchy between people, but in fact it is really creating a hierarchy.

Although Huang Zhiting and Gao Mengnan stated in their report that this kind of class difference already existed in the southern Xinjiang countries, Gao Yushi knew that the class difference was actually a "class difference", such as nobles, monks, landlords and wealthy merchants, and ordinary serfs (not peasants) , really serfs) are definitely not the same class, but now the Sinicization policy has actually created another class difference: Han Chinese and non-Han Chinese - this is very worrying.

If this kind of policy is transferred to India, then it may not be a big problem. After all, high-level pragmatics can directly solve all problems by declaring that the Han people are Brahmins or Kshatriyas. Special (untouchables, untouchables) will not have any resistance at all.However, southern Xinjiang is not India after all!
According to reports, sporadic rebellions in countries in southern Xinjiang are not uncommon, with an average of 1.7 rebellions a month.Although the scale of these rebellions is not large, the number of people is generally only about two to 300 people, the largest one is only a thousand people, and the few are even dozens of people.However, Gao Yushi believes that this situation is very bad, and it also greatly increases the cost of governance, resulting in Jinghua having to maintain a large-scale six major garrison forces in southern Xinjiang for a long time.

You must know that the six major garrison forces in Jinghua have basically completed the weaponization, and the weaponization of the army is a complete dimension reduction blow to these local rebellions.For comparison, when the Sino-French war broke out in the late Qing Dynasty, the French army increased its troops in North Vietnam to only 3.5 people. Usually, the garrison in the entire Indochina Federation (Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia) is about 2. This difference Is it a bit too big?
In other words, the three countries belonging to the French "Indochina Federation" are basically equivalent to Annan, Nanzhang, and Cambodia in southern Xinjiang. How many troops does Jinghua currently have stationed in these three places?There are four garrisons: Thang Long garrison, Jingang garrison, Vientiane garrison, and Phnom Penh garrison.

According to Gao Pragmatic’s reorganization order at the end of last year and early this year, the overall strength of the four garrison forces has been adjusted. The force configuration is as follows: the four towns of the Thang Long Garrison Army, with a strength of 50800; the four towns of the Jingang Garrison, with a strength of 50800; Phnom Penh Garrison has three towns with 38100 troops; Vientiane Garrison has two towns with 25400 troops.There are thirteen towns in the four major garrison forces, with a total strength of 165100!
Although these troops are not only paid by Jinghua himself, but also require the puppet kingdoms to bear the total amount of military rations and part of the military salary.However, after all, this is a firearmed army of more than 16 people. It would be fine if there was no war (counter-insurgency). As long as there is an action war, it will be a waste of money, and the landlord's family doesn't have so much surplus food!

What's more, there are more than 5 people in the Bagu garrison in four towns, and Dingnan not only has "Dingnan five towns", but also has 8000 palace guards and 9000 Siam independent garrison troops, totaling more than 8 troops.Now that the Longya Peninsula has been taken down, the Southern Border has to organize and train the Longya garrison...

Under such circumstances, southern Xinjiang is now sinicizing, raising troops, and building.Although Jinghua makes money ruthlessly, the speed at which it spends money is no one else, so that in the reports of Huang Zhiting and Gao Mengnan, they had to suggest that the follow-up pace of the Nanyang Raiders should be slowed down first, and even the construction of the Huzhou Military Port was slow. Take it easy.

According to Southern Xinjiang's calculations, it will cost 70 to 90 taels of Kuping silver just to expand the original Siamese independent garrison division into the Longya garrison, and the first phase of the new city planning and construction of Longya city. .

After the construction of the Dragon Tooth Guard Army, it is purely spent money. Needless to say, even after the re-planning and expansion of Dragon Tooth City is completed, it will not be able to pay back immediately. It is estimated that it will take at least ten years to pay back the cost, and Dingnan City almost.

Under such circumstances, Nanjiang could only submit a report and asked Gao to make a pragmatic decision. At the same time, he also asked about the situation in Japan-the reason is no surprise. Southern Xinjiang transported a lot of grain to Japan.Given that Jinghua's attributes are highly pragmatic, although Huang Zhiting and Gao Mengnan would not express their dissatisfaction, they obviously had to "report their attention".

The Japanese issue is therefore Gao Yushi's second "private matter" in the near future.

Basically, the Japanese side of things is doing pretty well right now.The new territory of the Narita family, Tamawa Castle, and the Misaki Castle directly controlled by Jinghua, let Jinghua actually control the entire Miura Peninsula. Gulf, and enjoys hegemony over the entire eastern waters of Japan.

However, the strength of sea power is not everything.After the Odawara conquest, the Narita family, due to their limited financial resources, would definitely not maintain their military strength during wartime. They reduced their standing troops to 1000—his family originally only had about 80 troops in non-wartimes, so Narita took half of them away at that time. After going to Odawara Castle, there were only 400 samurai and more than [-] ordinary soldiers left in Ninja Castle’s hometown, and the rest were farmers who temporarily participated in the defense.

In this way, even with the 800 Jinghua regular marines in Misaki Castle, the entire Miura Peninsula has less than [-] marines.The usual claim of "nearly ten thousand" is pure bluff, because the rest are actually sailors of the fleet.

Fortunately, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had just moved to the Kanto region, didn't care about them. He first gave up his plan to put the government office in Odawara Castle and settled it in Edo Castle—in name, it was too close to the Miura Peninsula, but in fact it was Gao Yushi is very clear that Tokugawa Ieyasu did not choose Odawara Castle in the original history, because he believed that only in Edo could it be more convenient to radiate power to the entire Kanto region.

At present, while Tokugawa Ieyasu is busy moving, he is busy suppressing sporadic disturbances from various forces loyal to the Hojo family. He has a very kind attitude towards Jinghua and Narita in the Miura Peninsula, and even strongly invites Jinghua to set up various stores and industries in Edo.

Since Jinghua Kanto did not understand the attitude of its master towards Tokugawa Ieyasu, they adopted ambiguous answers. While stabilizing Tokugawa Ieyasu first, they urgently sent people back to Beijing to ask for instructions on the next move and their attitudes when facing all parties.

In addition to these matters, the Japanese side also has a more "private matter" that must be highly pragmatic and personally decide, which is the issue of Kai Ji.

According to Luo Yuan's report, Jia Fei Ji is very prestigious in the Narita family, on the one hand because of her amazing combat performance in the Battle of Ninja Castle, on the other hand because she has become a highly pragmatic concubine with a very special status .

Luo Yuan said that the Narita family comes from the Fujiwara Kita family, and their family status is very high. Although it is not one of the Five Photographers in terms of Japanese habits, in terms of blood and family status, it can even legally serve as regent and Guanbai.

Now the Narita family has three daughters and two sons. The eldest daughter is Narita Kai, and the second son is named Shifan, but died young. The other son is named Shizong. He was originally Chang Zhong's second son.

Adoption is nothing at all, anyway, the Japanese value family names rather than bloodlines!But the problem is that Narita's head belongs to "early marriage and late childbearing". He is already 50 years old this year, and his eldest daughter is less than 20 years old. Recently, the lord of Yusheng City has become ill.

Mrs. Narita's illness is serious, and there are not one or two people who make crooked ideas, and the most critical one is none other than Sekibai Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

No one knows what Toyotomi Hideyoshi is planning, only that the monkey suddenly gave Narita the head of the Narita family the post of "five subordinates, Sagami Mamoru".Then he specially sent someone to visit his condition, and then "suggested" him to visit the emperor in the name of Narita's transfer of title to Jia En (Shi Gao added), and then he could go to Osaka Castle for treatment and recuperation.

Because of the banner of paying homage to the emperor, and because Narita's transfer of title did increase Shi Gao, Narita's head, as the descendant of the Fujiwara Kita family, couldn't find a reason to refuse, so he got angry.

The Japanese value the continuation of the family name more than anything else. Shi Changsheng is afraid that if he dies in Kyoto or Osaka, the son is not his own. What if there is an accident?
Don't think that the head of the clan is worried that his cousins ​​will seize the throne. In fact, if it is really them, the head of the clan is not worried, because at least the cousin's surname is Narita, and the continuation of the family name is not a problem.Instead, Mr. Narita was really worried about Jinghua.

Japan is different from Ming Dynasty. The Japanese allow their son-in-law to inherit. Although generally speaking, the daughter is required to be the son-in-law's wife, this rule is not so strict in reality.If the son-in-law is powerful enough, forced inheritance is not uncommon in Japan.

As for you to ask, obviously your own daughter has a stepbrother (Narita Nagamune is 24 years old this year, older than Narita Kai), why can the son-in-law inherit?Well, when the son-in-law is strong enough, what's so strange about the daughter's brother dying out of nowhere?

Oh, you have to ask your daughter about her attitude again, thinking she should try to protect her stepbrother?This is really a pity. The most common educational idea of ​​Japanese samurai families is actually to marry and obey their husbands, and to put the interests of their husbands first. Although not everyone can do it, most women do not, at least on the surface. contrary to this purpose.

In other words, if Gao Wu insisted on annexing Tamawa Castle after Narita's death, theoretically, Narita Kai could only express his approval-not to mention that Narita Changzong was not her biological brother, which would be even more dangerous.

Since the Battle of Ninja Castle, the Narita family has had a clear trend of yin and yang decline. Although there are still several males in the family, no one can compare with Kai Feiji in prestige.In such a situation, coupled with Jinghua's strength, Mr. Narita's worries could not be concealed at all.

In his report to Gao Pragmatism, Luo Yuan said that the most likely plan for Narita clan chief now is to abdicate early and hide behind the scenes, allowing Narita clan to succeed the patriarch.He asked his master if he wanted to stop it.

The reason why Luo Yuan asked this question was mainly because he was worried that the change of the head of the Narita family would affect Jinghua's control of the Miura Peninsula. After all, everyone is closely related now because Narita Kai has assumed the status of a high-level and pragmatic concubine.

After all, Luo Yuan is not Japanese. According to his thinking, Narita Nagamune and Narita Kai are just cousins. If they were in Daming, they would have separated as soon as Narita’s head died. They would be two families instead of one family. The relationship with the Narita family suddenly became estranged.

Luo Yuan's own attitude is even more interesting. He thinks that since the Japanese, like the chieftains of Ming Dynasty, can accept female house governors, it is not a bad idea to simply push Jia Feiji as the head of the Narita family.

And he provided more than this one plan. He said that although Mr. Narita was ill, he might not necessarily die soon.Therefore, another method can also be considered, that is, the master immediately takes Narita Jiafei back to the capital, "Once Lin'er comes out, you can inherit the Yusheng with the Narita Miao character, and change back to the Gao surname after the matter is completed."
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