The wind blows from the South Sea

Chapter 142 New Land Policy

After the military occupation of Salatiga, Feng Guohui set up the former enemy headquarters in the former official residence of the Entia-Mohammed tribe nobles. This is a South Asian palace-style building with a strong Borobudur style.

Historically, it was once the palace of a short-lived kingdom in Central Java. Two indigenous totem poles weighing dozens of tons each stood at the entrance of the building, indicating its noble status that is different from ordinary buildings.

In cities all over Java
Except for the largest city Batavia and the second largest city Bandung, plus the third largest city Surabaya, the other cities have a long history and their urban population does not exceed 100,000.

This is the scale of a city in a typical agricultural society. Because there is not much demand for industrial employment, the scale of cities is generally small.

The same is true for Salatiga. As a valley city with a long history, it has become an important transportation hub in Central Java due to its superior geographical location and is famous for its many craftsmen.

The entire city has a population of about 6.3. After two rounds of bloodbaths by the white colonial army and the Nanyang Army, the population has dropped sharply to less than 5, making it inevitably look a bit desolate.

in early april
Here ushered in the first large-scale Chinese immigrants, a total of 2822 people, who arrived on foot with the Nanyang caravan going south, and quickly settled in the town.

Some Chinese immigrants were resettled in rural areas in surrounding areas according to their wishes. They were allocated land, seeds, farm tools, houses, etc., and immediately put into hard work in farming.

These Chinese villages are large areas of unclaimed land vacated by the Nanyang Army after liquidating the local Sandibar and Entia-Mohamed tribes.

The purpose of Feng Guohui's land policy at this time was to create a large number of large, medium and small Chinese landowners. As a class with vested interests, they would be firm supporters of the Nanyang Military Government.

This is tantamount to abolishing the strongest ability of Chinese immigrants, thus causing the Chinese social population to fall into a long-term low growth situation.

With the influx of a large number of Chinese immigrants, indigenous women aged from 13 to 30 years old are hot commodities, and there is no need to worry about selling them in the market.

The downgrading attack of advanced civilization on backward civilization has formed an extremely corrosive and expansionary nature, and it has rapidly fermented and expanded.

There are countless similar tricks. Many chiefs of local indigenous tribes fell into the trap unknowingly and ended up selling their entire tribe's land.

Public and private primary schools and secondary schools have sprung up. Today, 37 secondary schools and 122 primary schools have been established, all of which teach Chinese, which is part of basic education.

Only in some expensive schools will English, French, German and Spanish be taught. This is part of elite education and is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

In poverty and illness, he died one night by the smelly ditch.

There have been many similar examples in Surabaya City
For example, some Chinese loan sharks, opium den gambling stalls, or brothel owners used debt to force the indigenous residents to sell their houses, land, children, and women. In the end, they were swept out with nothing.

Chinese families have more children, and they can only watch their children starve to death or die of illness amid poverty and illness.

Compared with using their brains to do business, how can those natives who can't be counted with ten fingers pick off the quick-thinking Chinese businessmen, and they can't even spit out their bones when they are swallowed.

Through the promulgation and implementation of various new policies, Feng Guohui completely unleashed the enthusiasm of Chinese immigrants for production and management, and unleashed their hands and feet to create wealth, thus triggering far-reaching social changes.

Starting in 1860, the Nanyang Military Government's allocation for education increased every month.

The shortfall will be charged from tuition fees.

After all, in an agricultural society, the number of jobs that cities can provide is extremely limited. Apart from handicrafts, commerce, transportation and various service industries, there are basically no factories recruiting workers.

In the first month of the second quarter, that is, April, the education allocation increased to 4 yuan, which was mainly used for the construction of new school buildings, supplementing public school teachers and libraries, as well as operating expenses, etc.

And the strong demand has triggered more traps and tricks against the indigenous tribes, which is almost impossible to guard against.

This policy invisibly trapped the Chinese immigrant population in the city.

According to the Nanyang Army’s new land policy

They helped each other repair their houses, rented cattle to open up wasteland for farming, and all matters related to basic agricultural production did not need to be worried by the immigration agencies.

Throughout the ages
The landlord class is the most conservative, stubborn, and loyal supporter of the ruling class, because their fundamental interests are closely related to the political power, and their actions can affect the whole body.

Dutch colonial regulations

In the new land policy, no foreign whites or indigenous people are allowed to obtain land through trade, but the land they have cultivated for generations can be recognized.

In the vast rural towns and villages, there is almost no trace of the Chinese population. It is difficult for them to survive in these areas and to obtain the income to support their families.

In the Nanyang Military Territory
The first police academy was established, the first education college was established, the first infantry senior school was established, the first engineering school was established, and the first comprehensive university was being prepared.

vice versa.

These financial burdens gave the hard-working Chinese immigrants an extra passion for work.

Individuals are allowed to purchase, sublease, and transfer land. The land owner has a 999-year vesting interest and can inherit and resell it, but needs to pay 12% of the transaction amount as a land interest transfer deed tax.

The introduction of new regulations on land policy first attracted the attention of a large number of military generals, businessmen and high-level governments in various regions of the Nanyang Army who had become rich first. Many families took out their long-saved property and began to purchase their favorite land.

The Nanyang Army's new land policy was in direct opposition to the Dutch colonists, and the two were incompatible with each other.

It is almost certain that the land deed documents, shop properties and other fixed assets issued by the Nanyang Military Government will not be recognized by the white colonial government of Gui Lao.

This move is also to stabilize the Tomori and other indigenous tribes who are clinging to the Nanyang Army, rather than forcing them to have no choice but to rebel.

Both inheritance and resale are subject to payment.

The Chinese immigrants are so hardworking and grateful, just like seeds, as long as they are sown in the ground, they will take root, sprout, and grow vigorously.

Through the implementation of the new land policy, Feng Guohui tried to create a stable Chinese landlord class.

Of course, these lands now belong to the Marshal, and they need to pay the land rent on time, repay various loans for resettlement, etc.

However, according to preferential policies, inherited land can be exempted from 7% tax and only needs to pay 5% land rights inheritance deed tax, but only for immediate relatives with inheritance rights.

This allowed the Nanyang military government to withdraw a large amount of assets and use them for bank credit, support industrial development, improve urban construction, strengthen military construction and other aspects, thus forming a virtuous cycle.

No Chinese or their descendants are allowed to acquire land ownership rights in Java and the East Indies through transactions, but the land acquired by early Chinese families can be recognized and continued.

The agricultural conditions in East Java are very favorable, and there is almost no need to follow strict farming seasons. The weather here is warm and suitable for agricultural growth all year round. There is ample sunshine and streams, and crops such as rice are harvested three times a year.

If you can get through life in this way, who would want to embark on this road of no return?

The next step is that the education department is formulating a five-year compulsory education policy, that is, every school-age child up to the age of seven, regardless of gender, must receive compulsory education, and the tuition fees will be borne by the parents.

Anyone who violates education policies will be fined.

If you delay for one year, you will have to pay a fine of ten yuan until the school-age child reaches the age of 18.

For a total of 7 years from the age of 18 to 12, you will have to pay a fine of 120 silver dollars, and it will affect the personal reputation of your parents working in factories or other industries, affect bank loans, affect employment, recruitment, and joining the army.

According to the compulsory five-year education policy, the total tuition required to complete a five-year primary school course is only about 24 silver dollars.

On average, it costs about 2.4 silver dollars per semester, which is affordable for most people.

The land for public schools is allocated free of charge by the government, and the construction costs of school buildings are borne by the government. The school's operating expenses are mainly supported by tuition fees, and government funding makes up for the shortfall.

For poor families who really cannot afford tuition fees, the government has corresponding subsidy policies.

The subsidy policy is not to give less money, but to allow parents to participate in school construction work, such as building houses and paving roads, greening, sweeping, patrolling, guarding and ringing bells, etc., and arranging tasks within their ability.

After working for a month, the income ranges from 1.8 cents to silver yuan. You can work for as long as you need, using your labor force in exchange for tuition.

The income from hard physical work such as building houses and paving roads, as well as some technical work, is higher, while the income from cleaning and bell-ringing work as a janitor is lower.

There is no need to think about direct tax exemption.

The entire government under the Nanyang Army advocates "working hard with both hands and not being a parasite that everyone hates." All people in the jurisdiction must work hard to earn an income.

So there are no lazy libertines or gangsters wandering around in the city?
There must be such people, and there are many of them, but at least they have to have a place to live and have enough food and clothing. If they become beggars or vagrants on the streets, the newly established Urban Management Bureau of the Nanyang Military Government can find a suitable place for these people.

All homeless people in the city will be centralized and resettled by the General Administration of Urban Management. After a one-month admonishment period, these people will be placed on city construction sites to do the hardest work.

For example, building roads and bridges, digging holes and planting trees, cleaning up garbage, etc. Those who perform well after working for a month can be released into the society to find jobs on their own.

If the performance during the reprimand period is poor, the hard labor will be extended for one month, and can be extended up to two times, which is three months.

If you still do not meet the minimum requirements, you will be thrown directly into the hard labor camp of the mine, engaged in the most arduous and tiring ore mining work, and exchange for food based on your labor.

Without food, he starved to death.

The Nanyang Military Government has a zero-tolerance attitude towards these idle and indolent Chinese. It does not need these idle people to pollute the appearance of the city and pollute the vigorous and progressive spirit of the entire society.

After entering the new year, homeless people and beggars were eliminated from the cities and towns under the jurisdiction of the Nanyang Army. The appearance of the entire city took on a new level, becoming cleaner and more beautiful.

Now even if those lazy people are given the courage, they will not dare to go to the streets to beg.

The environment on Java Island is really superior. As long as you are willing to put in the effort, having a full stomach is not a problem at all.

Agricultural production has three crops a year. As for the production of vegetables, fruits and vegetables, it will not be interrupted throughout the year. As long as the family has a piece of land, there will be endless fruits and vegetables.

Nowadays, many Chinese immigrants plant a few or a dozen fruit trees of different varieties in front of and behind their houses in the countryside, open up a vegetable plot, and even have the rations to raise chickens and ducks.

With their arms and legs free and their bellies full, the Chinese immigrants are now trying their best to earn more money and buy a piece of land of their own.

All that is left is to spread the branches and leaves of the clan. The simple concept of having more children and more blessings should not be promoted at all. Just look at the potbellied women who can be seen everywhere in cities and villages, and you will know how hard-working these immigrants are.

Salatiga former enemy headquarters

Feng Guohui has moved his headquarters here for more than half a month.

It was mid-April, and negotiations with the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies had been going on for more than ten days, but there were very few results and the negotiations were still ongoing.

After the Gulf War, the captured white officers and soldiers were sweating profusely on the construction site. Each one of them had their skin peeled off by the sun, and they had lost a lot of weight.

Lucius, the negotiator of the Governor's Palace, strongly protested against this, believing that this was an inhumane treatment of prisoners and was not something civilized people should do.

The answer given by the Nanyang Army was to directly take out seven white prisoners who secretly incited not to cooperate with the labor and deliberately resisted, and directly forced them to press on the stone.

Then each person was whipped 30 times. This whip was a cowhide whip with barbs. When dipped in cold water, the whip made a loud sound that made people tremble.

30 After being beaten with whips, six of the seven white prisoners were knocked unconscious on the spot. Their backs were beaten to pieces, and they were bleeding profusely.

One of the majors howled into the night and died.

All the white prisoners gathered together to watch the execution, including the arrogant negotiator Mr. Lucius. After watching it, his face turned pale and he left without saying a word.

The Nanyang Army did not tolerate him, and hung the seven white prisoners directly on the gallows the next day.

There is no medicine to treat them anyway. In the hot and humid weather like South Asia, the wound on the back will quickly become inflamed and abscessed, and the probability of survival is no more than 1/10.

In this case, just give it a try.

For the Nanyang Army, although the seven white prisoners hanged were money, they had killed so many on the Gulf Highway that they did not care about these few.

This execution was extremely shocking to many white officers and soldiers prisoners, and they made them relatively more honest.

It's not okay to be dishonest, they must work in exchange for food.

The food in the Nanyang Army's prison camp was not good. They drank kelp soup every day. The kelp was minced by a hand-cranked machine and was relatively thick.

Two meals a day, one bowl each, called basic soup.

The white prisoners who were unable to meet the progress of their work relied on this bowl of soup to survive.

The white prisoners who reached the progress were given a small piece of steamed bun as an extra. The steamed bun was made from low-quality flour and mixed with shredded kelp. It was about the size of a seven or eight-year-old child's fist.

Those who perform well can get two pieces of steamed bread, which is basically enough to satisfy them.

The only criterion for evaluation is the amount of labor. A group of twenty prisoners of war is responsible for 100 meters of road construction, including digging to the standard depth and width, laying a lime layer, fly ash layer, gravel layer, and loess layer and compacting them. , digging drainage ditches on both sides of the road, laying bricks and other work.

If the workload is met, ten people will be rewarded. If the workload is not met, ten people will be punished. They all have to drink the "basic soup".

The kelp soup is indeed nutritious and contains salt, but it really doesn't help you feel hungry. If you don't have the kelp soup to cushion your stomach, you'll be hungry after more than an hour after eating it.

decades later
Those old white men who had been in prisoner camps recalled that most of them had never touched kelp soup again in their lives. The sight of kelp made them sick, which brought back painful memories.

No matter what, it can be regarded as a scar in my heart.

in prisoner camp

A group of about ten white captives were specifically responsible for fishing for kelp. They held a boat and went back and forth every morning and afternoon to bring the boat filled with kelp back to the shore.

Then the white captives who helped the workers were responsible for filling the kelp into the hand-cranked cutting machine, first cutting it into silk, and then cutting it into dices.

Shredded kelp is used to make "basic soup". Put half a pot of shredded kelp in a large iron pot, then set up a fire and bring it to a boil. Add a spoonful of salt with a large spoon and you're done.

Ding kelp is mixed with low-quality flour scraps, which contains a lot of wheat bran. After adding water, it is kneaded into small steamed buns, and then steamed in a large pot.

As for the dish, it was pickled kelp shreds, which were bitter and salty to the point of being salty. When serving rice, each team grabbed a small handful.

After they were defeated and captured, these white officers and soldiers ate these things. Their eyes really glowed green when they ate them. During the road construction, they pulled out all the wild vegetables on the roadside and ate them up.

Just this, the taste is much stronger than the "basic soup".

"Sorry, Mr. Lucius, we will not release any white prisoners until the basic intention is reached in the negotiations, and there is no need to show our sincerity in negotiations in this way."

"I protest your mistreatment of white prisoners. I brought 40 silver dollars on this trip. Can't I let them eat better? Eat with dignity?"

"We did receive 40 silver dollars, but this is only the custody fee. We have calculated that the custody fee is 30 dollars per month. Every month of delay will add 30 silver dollars. It has been a month and a half so far."

"This is naked blackmail. This is too despicable. I would like to ask Britain, France and other world powers to intervene and give the white captives in the civilized world the treatment they deserve. This kind of abuse is unacceptable."

"If you please, I will inform you separately. In view of your unreasonable attitude, the Nanyang Army has doubled the ransom, and it is non-negotiable and cannot be reduced. Your only choice is to accept or not to accept."

"This... this is too much. I hope to meet with the Commander-in-Chief of the Nanyang Army and convey to him the private advice of the Governor of the Kingdom."

"Unfortunately, as your envoy, I cannot be received by the commander-in-chief. Let me tell you clearly that before the negotiation treaty is reached, the highest official you can meet is me, a lieutenant colonel of the Nanyang Army."

“Can we talk about conditions that don’t involve the division of territories and formal recognition between governments, but just a simple ransom?”

"Sorry, my answer is no, there is no room for negotiation, so I officially declare that the negotiations have broken down, and we will no longer entertain your negotiating team. You will have to pay one thousand silver dollars for every day of stay. Overdue If you don’t pay, we have the right to detain you.”

"You guys...this..."

"I want to remind you that insulting others at will is a violation of criminal laws and may lead to unnecessary jail time. I hope you think clearly before speaking."

"Okay, I will return to the Governor's Mansion and directly report the other party's negotiating opinions and propositions to the Governor, and request authorization."

"Well, yes, you still have 16 hours to stay here. If you exceed the time, we will charge you."

Lucius; "..."

(End of this chapter)