Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1068 Borneo

Although he had eaten quite a lot in the morning, Shangluo still ate a portion of the clay pot rice when it was served.

"How is it?" Zheng Shijie, who was sitting next to him, also opened a box. "When they were making it, they asked me to try a portion. I gave them some guidance on the airplane meal at the time - I asked them to add more ingredients. The food on the plane is bland to begin with, and I don't have an appetite for eating so much. It's better to have more ingredients for the clay pot rice."

"It's really enough. Half of this bowl of rice is filled with Chinese sausage and other preserved foods. I feel full right away after eating it."

"It's good to be full. After eating this, drink some more sugar water. Once your blood sugar level rises, you can lie down on the chair and fall asleep. The entire airline service will become simpler."

"You don't have any other meal options? Like Roman food?"

"Roman food? Yes, we do have it, but it usually has to be ordered in advance. We only have guests from Rome once every ten days or half a month, and they usually aren't picky about food when they come. Let me ask later - hey, it actually exists. Do you want to eat?"

"What is Roman food?"

"Some salad, jam, butter, pate, crackers, some vegetable and meat paste as a side dish, and finally a cake as a dessert. All packed in a lunch box."

"Can I have one?"

"Okay, go get it yourself, and the driver's cab will tell you where it is."

Shangluo walked to the cab, picked up the lunch box, stuffed it into his bag, and brought the meal to Victoria.

"Why, do you have guests to invite?"

"???" Shang Luo was stunned for a moment, "How did you know?"

"Hey, I can tell from your expression. There's something in your eyes, expectation? Happiness? It's the feeling of being needed. That's really great, you carry one with you."

"about this."

"Keep it a secret, keep it a secret, I know." Zheng Shijie looked out the window, "Oh, Shangluo, how about the scenery outside the window? This is my Borneo."

Shangluo also looked out the window - the plane was crossing the sky over Borneo, and the mountains and rainforests of Borneo were in full view.

There were huge, continuous mountains in the center of the island, and trucks were driving through them. Judging from the traffic, the standard of those roads seemed to be quite high.

However, I looked around again and found that there seemed to be no people here. Apart from Pontianak, there were no other larger cities to be seen.

"Is there no one living down here?"

"You mean the indigenous people? Yes. There are quite a few local aborigines here, and they usually live in their own villages. Sometimes they are hired as our employees, which is the lifelong goal of many of them. Some of the lucky ones are even allowed to work and live in Pontianak or other big cities in Southeast Asia. I am so kind that I have issued one or two hundred residence permits over the years." "So that's how it is"

"Do you have anything to ask?"

"You seem to be facing some similar problems as Rome - how to govern this land after everyone closes down. What is your policy for indigenous people? Will you allow indigenous people to establish a country?"

"Establish a country?" Zheng Shijie was stunned for a moment. "Are you kidding? Not every cat or dog in this world can establish a country. Our dynasty has its own laws. Those remote barbarians are managed according to the system of wild clothing, barbarian clothing, etc. Some places should be kept wild, and some should be built with fortresses and garrisons. And so on and so forth."

"Is that so? Did they cause any trouble?"

"Trouble? What's the trouble?"

"For example, they are causing trouble, thinking that this land should be theirs, not ours?"

"Aha." Zheng Shijie smiled, "Let me give you an example. For example, the place we are going to is the 'Zhendan Baru Mountain'. Do you know why the mountain is called this name?"

Shangluo shook his head.

"There is a local legend - it is said that a merchant from the Song Dynasty or this dynasty drifted to Borneo and married a wife here. Later, a caravan came, and the merchant followed the caravan back and never came back. The family left here went to the highest mountain closest to Kinai every day to look into the distance, but never saw their husband again. What can you hear from this story?"

"As if we are more familiar with this land than they are? We can call for help when we are in trouble, and our caravans pass by here? On the contrary, they are trapped in the land and have no way to go overseas to find us. And the name seems too casual, doesn't it? Such an important mountain is named after such a simple story?"

"This is the crux of the matter - our country does have a tradition of punishing the sinners, rejuvenating the extinct, and protecting the incense and sacrifice of all cultures. We will definitely not exterminate the incense of those who are truly indigenous. But here, these indigenous people actually came from Java Island, and they did not come earlier than us."

"Is that so?"

"Yes. You see these Nanyang natives, most of them originated from Java Island and migrated to various parts of Nanyang. So apart from Java Island, there are actually no large-scale 'indigenous people' in Nanyang. Everyone is an immigrant. The Javanese people in Borneo came later than us, so we certainly have no reason to regard them as 'indigenous people'. Their sacrifices are on Java Island, and they should stay in their own homeland."

"Ah, so you're pretty tolerant of them here?"

"That's right." Zheng Shijie nodded. "Besides, not everyone is qualified to call themselves a country. For example, the chiefdoms on Java Island have formed their own port-city states and govern themselves according to the mandala system. But the people on Luzon Island are almost completely primitive tribes. They can't even control their own lives, can't even enclose their own land, and have no ability to develop the nature around them. Their level of civilization is really too different, and now they have dissolved and dissipated in modern civilization."

"So what happens here after we leave?"

"Everything remains the same." Zheng Shijie replied, "Even if the population decreases, we will still have no problem maintaining a few large cities. But by then, the core of the company should be transferred from Pontianak to Singapore. As for Borneo, it should be handed over to the court to become a complete airport. As for the local residents——"

Zheng Shijie shook his head: "When the time comes, they should be sent back to their hometown, back to Java Island. The court doesn't need to worry about this. Lan Fang can prepare Borneo well, and then hand over a clean Borneo to the court as a spaceport."

(End of this chapter)