Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 231 225. Pacification
Feng Xi and Li Hui screened it and found that among the six companies reported by Weng Wenlou, three had solid evidence and there was nothing to see.

Although the other two families seemed innocent, according to Li Hui, these two families were not good people either. They had done many things like oppressing the Zham people and hating the Han people. So Feng Xi simply went with the flow and dealt with the matter like he did with the other three families.

There was only one family that had a good reputation in the local area and was quite close to the Han Dynasty. They did not resist much when Bao Feng went to pick them up, so Feng Xi let Li Hui show up and appeased their family. Then he promised in front of them that he would punish Weng Wenlou, and then released him without charge.

At noon on the second day, at the Cangwu Caishikou, dozens of people from five families were beheaded in public. The bloody heads frightened the Zan people who had evil thoughts and no longer dared to think of rebellion. Instead, they focused their energy on other places.

Feng Xi still seriously underestimated the Cham people's determination to progress.

Cangwu was the seat of the Jiaozhou governor's office and the first place where the "mutual assistance" law was implemented. On the day when those wealthy families were executed, it was almost crushed by the surging Cham people.

"Master, Master! I reported that my neighbor Ma Kuo had participated in the riots. He told me in person that he had robbed several ingots of silver from the Han people!"

"Master, I report that my father-in-law once instructed us to wear masks and participate in the riots!"

At one time, there were quite a few people from the Cham tribe who came forward to complain. Among them, there were naturally some who really knew the inside story, while there were also some who were just making empty claims to get angry.

As this was the first day of the implementation of this policy, Feng Xi and Li Hui naturally handled it with extreme seriousness. Today's situation would serve as a model for the future and no room for carelessness was allowed.

Soon, those with solid evidence were naturally arrested by the soldiers of the Shenwu Camp or the Jiaozhou Army. Those with serious crimes were thrown into death row, while those with lighter crimes were spared the death penalty but could not escape punishment while alive.

Feng Xi had naturally discussed the sentencing with Li Hui, and finally decided that all the instigators and plotters would be killed if caught. For the civilians who just followed the looting and did not kill anyone, their property would be confiscated and they would be beaten with 50 sticks. And those who killed people or committed serious crimes would either be beheaded or imprisoned in death row.

Of course, there is a situation where the person being reported knows that the reporter is not a good person and wants to bite back. Then according to this decree, does the thing have to be returned to this person?
The answer is of course no. Feng Xi invented a term for this, which was later used in later generations: deprivation of political rights. Of course, you can report the reporter in return. If the report is proven to be true, then all your properties will be confiscated and you will both become poor.

This can also avoid the situation where bugs are stuck in each other's way. At the same time, all the thoughts of the two punished people will definitely be on how to kill each other in the future. On the contrary, no one will have any opinion on the big Han officials who are "neutral law enforcement agencies."

In this way, Feng Xi successfully shifted the conflict from the confrontation between the Han and Zham ethnic groups to the internal conflict of the Zham ethnic group, causing them to fall into endless internal friction. Li Hui only needed to pull one group, beat one group, and kill one group, and he would not be afraid that the Zham ethnic group would make trouble again.

Of course, it is not enough to just stir up unrest within the Cham. The former British Empire did this for two main reasons. One was that its colonies, such as India, were too far away for the British Empire to reach.

The second is that it is difficult for the British to assimilate the locals. Although India once became the brightest jewel in the crown of the British Empire, it was only half a century from the 20th century to the end of World War II that India succeeded in becoming independent. And few people would think that they are authentic members of the Yellow Banner of the Great Ying. After all, everyone is of a different race, so how can there be a sense of identity? But Jiaozhou is different. In the future, most of Jiaozhou was successfully assimilated with the Han people who migrated south, proving that integration is not impossible, so it is just a means.

"Then, Lord Li, we will set up a class of 'naturalized people'. As long as they are fluent in Chinese and can write Chinese characters, they can be naturalized. They will have the same rights as Han people, and even be slightly more favored in some places. Of course, even some less critical official positions can be selected from these people, reflecting the equal treatment of our great Han people.

Then, we should ask Weng Wenlou and his lackeys to be careful not to disturb the naturalized people of this class, so that everyone can see the benefits of naturalization and be motivated to learn Chinese characters and Chinese. Of course, we should also promote the learning of Chinese. "

If before it caused a rift within the relatively united Cham people, causing them to start fighting among themselves, then now it is a transformation.

Let the Cham people understand the benefits of joining the Han people, and let them actively accept sinicization. In less than two generations, when they can only speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, they will forget that they were once Cham people.

Li Hui couldn't help but applaud Feng Xi's ideas, which were extremely sinister from a personal perspective, but would definitely benefit the Han Dynasty for generations to come.

Next, Feng Xi stayed in Jiaozhou for another ten days to ensure that Jiaozhou's policies could be implemented smoothly without any deviation.

New decrees were issued one after another, starting from Cangwu and radiating to the entire Jiaozhou. First, the "mutual assistance" encouraged by mutual reporting tore apart the fragile "unity" of the local Cham people. Then, the "naturalization order" immediately attracted a group of Cham people who were loyal to the Han people. With them and those Cham people who successfully rose to power through reporting as intermediaries, a puppet-like custodian class was successfully established.

The hostility and conflicts among the Cham people quickly shifted away from the Han people and turned into mutual hostility and vigilance. At the same time, they envied those who naturalized early and could enjoy various preferential treatments and policy support.

Even many people who were originally quite hostile to the Han people developed Stockholm syndrome and began to feel that the Cham people of the same ethnic group were too hateful, while the impartial Han people seemed so amiable.

Of course, there were some people with a little brains who could see that this was a strategy of the Han people to sow discord, but unfortunately these people were a minority. In fact, many of them were reported to the government by those opportunistic occupiers before they could even call on others to wake up, and they died before they could accomplish their mission.

As more and more people started to compete with each other, the government took the opportunity to seize a lot of land and handed it over to simple farmers to manage. In line with Feng Xi's previous request that all counties implement new farming methods, Jiaozhou's agriculture actually developed.

In short, in less than a month, the Cham rebellion, which had been spreading like wildfire, came to an end in the internal strife of the Cham people. The Cham people started the rebellion in great strides, but it ended in mutual suspicion, mutual vigilance, and mutual denunciations.

Feng Xi was quite satisfied with this. He took his 3,000 Shenwu Camp and, as if nothing had happened, he said goodbye to Li Hui, Yu Jin and others early in the morning and headed north to return to Jingzhou.

(End of this chapter)