Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 247 The new Ming Dynasty is much stronger than the Qing Dynasty and the old Ming Dynasty!
"Qinshe, according to the results of various counties, there are currently 45 villages in Guangfu counties, 58 townships, more than 300 common surnames, more than 150 strong men, a total population of more than [-] million, and [-] cultivated land. There are more than [-] mu, and there are more than [-] million mu of wasteland with relatively fertile soil.”

The person in charge of the report is the Prime Minister Chen Yonghua, and the entire New Ming Dynasty is only called Zhu Kezang.

"Now [-] reserve troops have been recruited in various places in Guangfu, and they are preparing to gather in Guangzhou for training!"

"It's so good. Starting today, we will set up a standing army of the Ming Royal Army. In terms of treatment, half of the treatment of the Guards is enough."

Zhu Kezang expressed his vision, the army, there must be elites and ordinary ones, the guards are the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, only the outstanding soldiers of the Royal Army of the Ming Dynasty can be selected into the guards.

Such a clear hierarchy can also highlight the status of the Guards!
"Qinshe, you can decide on the affairs of the army yourself, but Daming is about to enter the eastern part of Guangdong, and we have to make preparations to govern the whole of Guangdong."

Foreshadowing makes things stand, and failure to forewarn leads to failure. Chen Yonghua still reminded Zhu Kezang to be prepared, because governing Guangdong is completely different from governing Yizhou Island.

Things are much more complicated here.

During this period of time, Zhu Kezang has collected a lot of information about Guangdong, and he has heard a little about it under his influence.

"Father-in-law, what we have to do is nothing more than three points, Cantonese people rule Cantonese, Hakka people rule Hakka, Chaozhou people rule Chaozhou!"

There are many grievances and hatreds among the three major ethnic groups in Guangdong, Cantonese, Hakka, and Chaozhou people, and each of these three major ethnic groups has its own clan power.

Speaking of which, the clan power in Guangdong still existed even in the 21st century, and it became even stronger in the [-]th century.

Therefore, in order to govern Guangdong well, it is necessary to adjust the direct conflicts between the three major ethnic groups, and the bowl of water must be leveled and not too biased towards any ethnic group.

At present, Zhu Kezang's Yizhou Island faction can be said to be dominated by Chaozhou people and Fujianese, and it will definitely be more or less biased towards Chaozhou.

For example, Qiu Hui, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, is from Chaozhou Prefecture, and he yells every day to let the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow fight over.

It is also because of Qiu Hui that the recovery of eastern Guangdong has now been put on the agenda, and preparations are already being made to send troops, and Guangdong will not be far away.

Moreover, Chaozhou people are relatively united. If a Chaozhou person develops better in the officialdom, more Chaozhou people will soon appear around him.

Fortunately, Chaozhou people seem to be more willing to do other things than being officials.

Chaoshan people rely on mountains to eat mountains, and water to eat water. With the convenience of being close to the coast, they started overseas trade business, which was once very prosperous.

Engels at that time also praised in his writings: "Shantou in the [-]th century was the only commercial city in the Far East."

Within Guangdong, Chaozhou people can be said to be a relatively neutral ethnic group, because they are in the easternmost part, and there are not many opportunities for conflicts.

The real trouble is Cantonese and Hakka people.

These two ethnic groups often engage in large-scale fighting over land and imperial examination issues, commonly known as native-official fighting.

Both Cantonese and Hakka people belong to the Han people. In ancient times, they were immigrants from the north to the south of Guangdong. After the refugees who first came to Guangdong merged with the local aborigines, they became the "natives" of Guangdong, that is, the Cantonese.

Compared with the natives, the refugees who migrated later were called "Hakka people", that is, the later Hakka people.

Guangdong has many mountains and few plains, and the main plains are distributed along the coast. Among them, the Cantonese residents who came early are mainly distributed in the Pearl River Delta Plain and western Guangdong, while the Hakka who arrived later had no choice but to choose eastern Guangdong, which has less arable land. In mountainous areas, as the population increased during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the conflict between the two ethnic groups because of the land became more and more intense.

Moreover, both sides are fanatical groups with strong clan concepts. When they fight, they don't talk about "martial ethics" at all, and they have the intention of exterminating the family.

At that time, there was a popular method of "shoveling the village", that is, killing an entire village.

It is this cruel way of fighting with weapons. After each fierce fight, the elderly, women, and children of the defeated side will all die under the massacre of the winning side.

Therefore, if you want to govern Guangdong well, you must appease the Cantonese and Hakka people, and don't let them consume the population by fighting among themselves, so you have to work hard on the land.

After figuring it out, Zhu Kezang replied: "Father-in-law, don't worry, first divide the land and then do education, and then there will be a large number of talents loyal to Ming Dynasty. Once we have talents, we can then promote our true Confucianism, and we will be able to get twice the result with half the effort."

"We are so so."

The next day, the streets and alleys of Guangzhou Mansion were bustling with people with bald heads, who looked as if they had just cut their braids.

In this season when all the people are bald, newsboys are distributing Huangming Daily News everywhere.

There are also many grassroots civil servants of the Ming Dynasty who took to the streets to preach the favorable policies of Zhu Dasheng.

They wore plain Confucian-style clothes and shouted: "Neighbors, the emperor said that in order to promote the great harmony of the world and the revival of Confucianism, after the autumn harvest this year, Guangdong will start to divide the land. Thirty acres of land can be divided, women and boys can be halved, and the fields that everyone can share can be owned by themselves or given to the clan!"

This one made the Guangzhou people who had just been allocated houses on the street burst into tears!

They don't understand what true Confucianism is, but they understand how to divide the land!
They also had land before, but it was all taken up by the Ertars. In their hearts, having land is more important than anything else!

Zhu Kezang just took advantage of the situation and spit out the land occupied by the Qing Dynasty and returned it to the people.

For him, the more important thing is the industrial industry. There will be a lot of land in the future, such as America and Australia.

It was nothing to Zhu Kezang, but to the people who had suffered enough from the Tartar Qing Dynasty, many of them wept on the spot, knelt down one after another, and cheered for the mercy of the saint.

This is not over yet, Zhu Kezang's benevolent government is not the only one!
"Folks, the sage emperor said that all boys in Guangdong, starting from next year, will go to school when they reach the age of seven. The tuition fees will be borne by the school land allocated by the clan, and the imperial court will give the school land a tax-free benefit!"

Zhu Kezang’s new Ming Dynasty couldn’t afford compulsory education, so the clans in Guangdong could afford it, but by the way, I would like to give them some benefits, hello, hello, hello, everyone.

In the streets and alleys of Guangzhou Mansion, people chose to stop and listen to the lectures of the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty!

Because every word they say hits their hearts directly.

Many scholars sighed: This new Ming Dynasty is much better than the Tartar Qing Dynasty and the old Ming Dynasty!
(End of this chapter)