Smuggling Daming

Rather than saying that Zhu Zhishan and Wang Shouren worshiped the natives who were burned to death outside the valley, it is better to say that they are worshiping their own conscience as a person. After all, they watched hundreds of thousands of their own kind die in front of their eyes. People with a conscience will feel uneasy in their hearts, especially those who have been influenced by Confucianism like Zhu Zhishan and Wang Shouren, feel that their conscience has been condemned by heaven.

After the worship, Zhu Zhishan took Wang Shouren back to Gangnan County, and then ordered the chef he brought to cook a banquet, all of which were local flavors of his hometown Yangzhou. Wang Shouren and the others had a big appetite, and Zhu Zhishan and Xu Shenzhong toasted frequently, which made Wang Shouren and the others eat with joy.

After drinking for three rounds, Zhu Zhishan asked Wang Shouren and his party why they came. In fact, in the previous conversation, he had already seen that the people Wang Shouren brought were officials, and they were probably officials from the Governor's Mansion. Know what Wang Shouren is doing in Gangnan County with these officials in plain clothes?

For a loyal elder like Zhu Zhishan, Wang Shouren naturally would not conceal his identity, and he had also seen the officials in Gangnan County, and there was nothing wrong with him at all, so he took out his seal in front of Zhu Zhishan, showing his identity and origin. The reason for going to the Old Port, and at the same time, I also told the story of meeting Tang Bohu before, and finally took out the letter I brought

As a result, Zhu Zhishan heard that Wang Shouren was already the inspector of the Governor's Mansion, and immediately congratulated him, and at the same time he was a little bit embarrassed.Wang Shouren, the procuratorate, was nearly ten ranks higher than him, and Tang Bohu's prefect was also higher than his official position, but among the three, he was the oldest. Thinking of this, Zhu Zhishan couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

However, Zhu Zhishan's character was cheerful and open-minded, so he quickly put aside the disappointment in his heart. In addition, today was a private banquet, so he did not report any official business to Wang Shouren.Instead, ask him about the anecdotes along the way. After all, it took Wang Shouren half a year to get to Nanyang, and he traveled all over the land under the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas. This made Zhu Zhishan very envious, but it's a pity that he is on official business now. , except staying in Gangnan.It is impossible to go out at other times.

Wang Shouren's interest was also aroused by the delicious wine and food on the table, and he told some interesting stories about his experience along the way, and also some problems that occurred in the process of administration of officials in various places. Although he didn't show up, talking about it now will also allow Zhu Zhishan to gain some experience in government affairs.avoid the same problem.

After the banquet, both Zhu Zhishan and Wang Shouren returned drunk.In the next few days, Wang Shouren lived in the county government office. While asking Zhu Zhishan for calligraphy, he also inspected the lifestyles of the people in Gangnan County. After all, the old port was his last stop. Came to Gangnan County because of the native riots.Next, I will go back to the Old Port to continue the inspection. Now I just use Gangnan County to learn about the living customs of the Han people in the Old Port.

A few days later.Wang Shouren bid farewell to Zhu Zhishan, and the group left Gangnan County and returned to the old port again.Jiugang is the largest city of Ming Dynasty on Jinzhou, and it is also the most important stronghold for Zhou Zhong to invade Jinzhou. Therefore, Zhou Zhong attaches great importance to Jiugang. Now the prefect of Jiugang is named Li Yi, just like Tang Bohu. They are all old people who came from the Shipbuilding Department back then, and they are very shrewd and more experienced than Tang Bohu, so Zhou Zhong transferred him to Jiugang to work.

However, Wang Shouren doesn't like this Li Yi, because this person is too shrewd, and he does things unscrupulously. As long as he can achieve his goal, Li Yi can use any means, such as the local riots in Gangnan County this time. There is no definite evidence, but he always feels that Li Yi is behind the scenes, because the reaction speed of the old port army during the riot was too fast, and Wang Shouren believes that if Li Yi is really behind this incident, then the There must be Zhou Zhong's instruction. After all, based on his understanding of Li Yi, the other party did not have the guts to deliberately provoke the natives to rebel.

As for why Li Yi provoked the natives to rebel, Wang Shouren still couldn't understand this question at the beginning, but when he saw more and more Han people in Old Port, and those who would rather lie in the shade of trees and sleep Wang Shouren suddenly understood Zhou Zhong's approach when he was working on the farm to make money for the natives. After all, there are a group of extremely lazy natives living on such a fertile and rich land in Nanyang, and these natives are unwilling to do even the simplest labor. Doing it would be a waste of Nanyang's resources, so Zhou Zhong has now started to eliminate the number of natives in a planned way to make room for later immigrants.

Thinking of this, Wang Shouren also sighed. From a rational point of view, he supported Zhou Zhong's plan. After all, they were all from the Ming Dynasty. In order to solve their own domestic conflicts, it was understandable to kill some natives.But from an emotional point of view, Wang Shouren was somewhat repulsed by this approach. After all, those natives were also humans. Although they were lazy and cruel, they were still humans, not animals.

From a rational point of view, Wang Shouren's sympathy for the natives of Nanyang is understandable. After all, the natives of this era have not done too many things to be sorry for the Han people. He will definitely raise his hands to support Zhou Zhong's decision. After all, the natives who can do such cruel things are no different from animals.

Although Wang Shouren guessed that Zhou Zhong was behind the instigation of the native riots, and Li Yi, the prefect of the old port, was just an executor, but this still made it difficult for Wang Shouren to have a good impression of Li Yi. After all, Li Yi is an old fritter in the officialdom. He is extremely shrewd and slick, but he can show no mercy when he should be ruthless. Such a person is indeed an official, but he is definitely not a good person.

In addition to his dissatisfaction with Zhou Zhong and Li Yi for provoking the riots among the natives, Wang Shouren also discovered another big problem in the old port, which was unique to the old port, and he had never encountered it in other places, and that was the problem of religion.

Originally, Old Port was the missionary center of Nanyang Islam. Almost all the Han people here were Muslims. Those who did not believe in religion were either forced to assimilate or driven out. As a result, a single religious city was formed, with spiers everywhere. It is precisely this kind of religious belief that puts the Old Port in a special position among Southeast Asian countries, and it can survive until now.

When Old Port surrendered to Ming Dynasty, the number of Han Muslims in the whole city had already reached [-]. It can be said that it was the largest settlement of Han people in Nanyang. The vast area is even larger than the Taiwan government.

In order to rule this vast area, Zhou Zhong began to shift the focus of immigration to this area, and gave more preferential immigration policies. As a result, more and more Han immigrants from the old Hong Kong government, such as Gangnan County on the side of Zhuzhi Mountain, from In the beginning, the number of Han people was less than a hundred, and now it has grown to nearly 30. As for the old port, the number of Han people has exploded, and now it has exceeded 30. Of course, the [-] people not only include the old port The citizens of the urban area also include agricultural immigrants who cultivated in the outskirts.

However, with the immigration of immigrants from other places, the Old Port is no longer a purely Muslim city. Some customs that they should have observed have also been impacted by immigrants. Not to mention, it is just a diet Habits have caused a lot of trouble. Muslims don't eat pork or drink alcohol, but those immigrants don't care about it. They kill pigs and eat meat in the city. At the same time, they also opened a lot of pubs and restaurants, although they have added a lot of life to the old port. , but it also caused dissatisfaction among many Muslims. When this dissatisfaction accumulated to a certain extent, conflicts naturally occurred.

In fact, for this kind of religious conflict in the Old Port, both parties to the conflict are very innocent. For example, a new immigrant who invited someone to dinner saw that the ordinary restaurant was full, so he went to a restaurant run by Muslims to patronize with friends. We were chatting, but we forgot that we don’t sell wine and pork here. When we ordered, we asked for pork head meat and good wine. The Muslim who opened the shop thought that the other party was here to insult him, so he cursed a few times in a fit of anger. Unexpectedly, the other party also A temper tantrum broke out, cursing and swearing, and a fight broke out, and the quarrel grew bigger and bigger. The accumulated conflicts between the two sides also broke out at once through this trivial matter, and finally triggered a group fight between immigrants and Muslims.

For such a gang fight, Wang Shouren personally experienced it shortly after he came to the Old Port. It was still a trivial matter that caused the conflict. In the end, dozens of hundreds of Han people fought with Muslims on the street, and finally it was the government. The yamen servants rushed over, stopped the fight between the two parties, and then brought them all to the government office. In the end, the government office was over [-] boards, and it was considered a matter. After all, there is no way to judge right or wrong in this kind of thing, and as long as no one dies, it’s nothing what a big deal.

However, Wang Shouren has already seen the danger brewing behind this religious conflict. When he was sent to Longchang as an official, he had witnessed the conflict between the Miao people and the Han people, and this conflict had lasted for hundreds of years. For thousands of years, the conflicts between ethnic groups have accumulated extremely deep, and it is not so easy to resolve them.

Although the conflict between the Muslims in the old port and the new immigrants has not yet reached the point where it cannot be resolved, there are already some bad signs. If this situation is allowed to continue, I am afraid that in the end, the religious conflicts alone will make the Governor's Mansion It's a headache, so I must find a way to solve it! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)