Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2124 Local Will ([-])

The air in Jiao County is a bit tense recently.

The reason for the tension was a recent disturbance in a servant army stationed outside the city.The rioting troops rushed into the city, occupied the granary, opened the arsenal, and took the division commander Du's family as hostages. The impact was extremely bad for a while.

After the riot broke out, the servant army and the new army stationed at the Jiaolai Xinhe line of defense immediately dispatched to the scene of the incident.In addition, a mixed army battalion in Jiaozhou Port, an important town in Denglai, was also ordered to go to Jiaoxian County to quell the chaos.

Jiaoxian County is located on the east bank of the Xinhe River in Jiaolai, and it was relocated from the original site on the west bank (the Manchu Qing re-established a new county on the original site of Jiaoxian County, that is, there are currently two Jiaoxian counties in Laizhou, and each side occupies one of them).Back then, the people from the east bank demolished the city walls there, and moved the people to the east bank of the river for resettlement. Now it has gradually developed into a county with a population of 8 to [-], which is not bad.

From here we can see that Jiaoxian County is an important town for river defense and the key to the canal, no matter how important it is, it cannot be overstated.Therefore, when the rioting soldiers rushed into the city, imprisoned their division commander, and opened the arsenal, the surrounding garrisons were mobilized at once to encircle Jiao County.

The rioting troops were Du Dawei's Department of the 3500th Division of the Servant Army, with a total of about [-] people. They were the "Mule Army" Du Chong's department (Du Dawei was his son) that was incorporated by Marshal Mo in Xisifu. Most of them were cavalry.This army has fought for the east coast for many years, participated in many battles in Ningbo, and also participated in the famous battle of Huai'an Mansion, not to mention the countless battles they fought with the Qing army in Shandong. Called a strong team.

In this big wave of dismantling and reorganizing the servant army, this veteran army has also been affected.They were informed by Yantai that the troops would be disbanded in mid-1691. At that time, except for a few people, most of them would be forced to move to two small colonies in India. This immediately ignited the anger of the soldiers: Everyone lives well in Jiao County, and has made great contributions to Dadong'an over the years, but they are treated so badly, and they are exiled to the miasma in the remotest corners of the world. How can this not make people angry?

As a result, the furious soldiers mutinied. They rushed into the city and fired guns everywhere. The police dared not and were powerless to stop them. They could only watch them occupy various key points in the city and tried their best to protect the county government from being captured by the rebels. , and at the same time send elite personnel to go out to report, that's all.

Fortunately, these rebellious troops are also very restrained, they don't want to burn, kill and loot, after all, they are all from the villagers, and they can't look up and look down, so they can't do anything.When they make trouble, they want to express more of an appeal, that is, they don't want to be at the mercy of their superiors, and they don't want to go to India, which doesn't shit. They just want to stay in their hometown.

Of the 3500 people, less than 2000 participated in the mutiny, and the rest were stopped in the barracks by officers and did not go out to participate.In addition, they were more out of righteous indignation, and they didn't think about what to do before making troubles, and they didn't have a careful plan, so they were quickly suppressed by the army who heard the news—they didn't even wait for the blue clothes The army arrived, and the new army from Jiaolai Xinhe disbanded the chaotic army, and the situation quickly calmed down within two days.

The special commissioner from Yantai is currently on his way.According to inside sources, the officers who caused trouble will be miserable, and there is a high probability that they will be tried and convicted, and the leaders may even be shot.As for other ordinary soldiers, it is estimated that they will inevitably have to go there, that is, those places in India must be gone!This is related to the dignity of Yantai, not to mention that they are all prisoners now and have no choice but to obey orders.

However, as mentioned by the gendarmerie officials who are sitting in Jiaozhou City and writing a report at the moment, the mutiny of 2000 people from the 3000th Division of the Servant Army has already reminded the upper echelons of Denglai that future policies should not be too high-minded , It must be realistic and down-to-earth.Captains and commanders always consider the overall situation when formulating policies, and often do this and that often damage the interests of the local area.For example, when [-] members of the Ding family in Ye County were abolished, many of them were relocated to Brunei in Southeast Asia to settle down. Do you think all of these people are willing?Furthermore, in recent years, Denglai has transported a large amount of grain, livestock and other materials to support the wars in Ningbo, Lianwu, Manchuria and other places. Are you willing to be a citizen of Denglai?The taxes paid by the local people are for you to build up the country and strengthen national defense, but in the end, you spend all of it squandering and fighting. How can this not make people feel angry?

In short, Denglai has been in a state of being demanded for many years, except for the rescue from the outside world in the earthquake that year, without much benefit.Therefore, people in many places feel dissatisfied. They are also real people with their own emotions and ideas. They are not puppets and puppets. They are what others say, as if they are playing a game.The entire territory of Denglai has basically ended military control. Now everyone is asking for more things. I hope that when the pioneer team formulates policies, they will take their opinions into account and consider their dignity and demands more ( Don't be so high on the top, don't treat people as people), otherwise things like the mutiny of 2000 people like the Seventh Division will continue to happen in the future.

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Coincidentally.Just as the Denglai development team was reviewing the policy due to the mutiny of the slave soldiers, a group of businessmen were also gathering to discuss in a private garden in Ningbo Fuding Harbor.They discussed how to come together to put pressure on the Bank of Taiwan to decentralize the giant monopoly and allow them to also conduct direct trade with foreign merchants.To put it bluntly, in the past, if they wanted to sell goods to the Dutch, they had to sell them to the Bank of Taiwan first, and then the Bank of Taiwan settled the settlement with foreign merchants. I don't want the Bank of Taiwan to continue to pick it up, and I want to do it myself.

Of course, they are also very clear about what kind of company Taiwan Bank is.It is precisely because of this that they thought of joining together and negotiating with the Bank of Taiwan. In this way, the heavy pressure from the Bank of Taiwan can also be shared by everyone, which will be much easier.

The reason why they have this kind of thinking is also because Ningbo has been in peace for many years, and the rulers who used to kill them and ordered them arrogantly are now gradually integrated with them.To be more precise, they have gradually integrated into the ruling system of the people on the east coast. You have me in you and you in me.For example, whose nephew is a cadre in the police station, whose son works in the county government, whose relative is an officer in the army, etc. Many positions in the middle and lower classes of Ningbo have been slowly infiltrated by locals like them.Even if many soldiers from the Bingtuanbao were selected to serve in the local area, it was still far from enough, not to mention that once these soldiers got married and had children in the local area, and had their own social circle, localization would be inevitable.

This is not to say that localized cadres are not good. In fact, many local cadres in Denglai and Ningbo, at least in the current situation, are still willing to obey the orders of their superiors and complete their work well.The most important difference between localized cadres and foreign cadres is that they are unwilling to do things that harm local interests in order to please their superiors, and they will take more care of the local area when implementing policies, which is completely different from foreign airborne cadres.

The businessmen in Ningbo collectively discussed trade autonomy this time. In fact, it was not just a matter of foreign trade. It was also a test of Ningbo's local forces against the ruling forces on the east coast.Years of good foreign trade have given Ningbo businessmen sufficient confidence (accumulated a large amount of capital) and enhanced their confidence.Many people even think that they set up silk reeling factories, textile factories, tea factories, rice mills, oil mills, etc., which not only produced a lot of goods, but also created a lot of tax revenue for the government, so they subconsciously felt that the East Bank The ruling class should give them more autonomy and further enhance their political status so that they can be rewarded for their efforts.

In the past, the conditions for this kind of trial were not yet mature, and it was destined to have no results.But the situation now is very different from what it was ten or twenty years ago. Their capital strength is getting stronger day by day, and they have infiltrated a large number of local government positions, and even some of them are in the new army.Under such a "great situation", it is time to put forward some proposals for the distribution of power, and this undoubtedly needs to test the bottom line from the trade monopoly power of the Bank of Taiwan.

As a large syndicate, Bank of Taiwan has not heard any rumors.In fact, they are still very well informed, having received information about this a few days before this.The company once had a lively discussion, but in the end it was just a discussion, and nothing happened—the reason why they haven’t jumped out to object until now is probably because the goods need to be obtained from the hands of these Ningbo businessmen, and they are controlled by others. .

In the end, most of this matter still needs to be resolved through compromise and negotiation.Ningbo has developed to the point it is today, and it is indeed impossible to ignore the interests of local businessmen and officials without limit.It seems that the Bank of Taiwan, together with these emerging forces, will make the cake bigger and stronger, and redistribute the proportion of interests in it, which seems to be the correct approach.

Of course businessmen are always profit seekers.Even if the government and the Bank of Taiwan make some concessions to them, they should also pay attention to whether they secretly sold the restricted commodities, which happened in the past.The government has improved the freedom and political status of businessmen, but it also needs to strengthen monitoring of them. Only in this way can Ningbo's social order be well maintained and the economy can be better developed.

I fell asleep last night, and when I woke up, my cervical spine failed again.I went to the hospital in the morning, and the doctor gave me all the money until Saturday, saying that I would have a CT scan on Saturday.Today I am tilting my head to give you code words@[email protected]

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