Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 717 The Birth of a New System...

Langzhou, South Vietnam.

On a hill at an altitude of 300 meters, the flames of the destroyed Yueren cottage gradually extinguished.After a short rest, a hundred or so troops under the banner of "Luo" and one or two hundred black, thin and short South Vietnamese natives surrounded the defenseless cottage from all directions.Judging from the resistance of Yue people at the beginning, this cottage is just a small settlement of 400 to [-] people.

Luo character flag, this is Zhong Xiangjun.The latter was granted the title of Duke of Luo.

The dark and dilapidated cottage wall in front of me has just been baptized by a shocking thunder. Under the light of the torch, almost none of the bamboo buildings near the wall of the cottage are complete, and some of the collapsed bamboo buildings are still scattered around. The bright red blood stains lay corpses one after another.

The Central Plains Army's 'rule' of South Vietnam was extremely cruel and high-pressure.

Almost all the aristocratic families in the territory cannot escape the fate of being purged and relocated.I won't mention the fate of the former. If the latter is unwilling to go, the only way is to confiscate and become a slave.Even those families that took the initiative to take effect must relocate.

As for ordinary people, in addition to changing customs, they are given a high-pressure rule.Whenever someone "collaborates with the bandits" is found, the whole family will suffer, and the people at the bottom are encouraged to supervise and report each other, otherwise the system of consecutive sittings will be implemented, and not one family will suffer.

Wang Anshi implemented the "Baojia system" to enhance the military power of the Central Plains and the ruling power of the Zhao and Song courts over the people.But now the Central Plains Army—San Ruan's Department has completely withdrawn from the frontline battles, and the control of the territory is limited to the area along the Red River, and the rest of the land is actually controlled by the soldiers and horses of Fang, Wang and Zhong.Under the rule of the four parties, the Baojia system was implemented, but only the functions of controlling people's power, ensuring taxes and labor, and implementing population management were left.There is no need to mention the military function of the combination of soldiers and peasants for training.

With an attitude of destroying everything, the Central Plains army going south has carried out a thorough cleansing of South Vietnam, where "independent consciousness" has existed for 200 years!
The eradication of politics and culture.A large number of aristocratic families were either cleaned or forced to relocate, which would directly cause a fault in South Vietnamese civilization.Although the South Vietnamese civilization, which uses Chinese and Sinicized, has many similarities with the Central Plains, those "cultural people" have rebellious brains, and this alone must be cleaned from the South Vietnamese land.

It's a cruel way, but it can't be helped.Emperor Lu didn't want to go back and forth to Pingyue War again and again.Those native families in South Vietnam have already absorbed too many benefits from the independence of the country, and their hostility to the Central Plains is too deep-rooted to be reconciled with words.Emperor Lu would not repeat the mistakes Ming Chengzu made in the official history.

Just like after San Ruan led his troops to break through Shenglong City, the dignitaries in the city who had no time to escape, and the dignitaries who were captured during the subsequent pursuit, were all beheaded by Ruan Xiaoqi.

At the beginning of this war, it was a war of "exterminating the species and subjugating the country" between the Central Plains and South Vietnam.

Of course, the arrival of the same Central Plains army did not change the social class of South Vietnam at all. They brought new life to the bottom slaves in South Vietnam.You must know that there are still a large number of slaves in the Nanyue Kingdom, most of whom are "domestic slaves", which are no different from the slaves and maids who had no freedom in life during the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Middle Kingdom.After his death, Li Gande, who was posthumously named Renzong by Nanyue, only imposed a ban on private slaves stabbing ink (tattoo).

But now the masters on the heads of these slaves have either been cleaned or moved, and they are also free.In a sense, they have gone from slaves to free farmers.

Just when Emperor Lu commanded the army to march to the north of Yanyun, and in the days that followed, Fang Wangzhong and the three vassal armies entered South Vietnam one after another. Li Qiande's regular army had long been eliminated, but Li Qiande was "lucky" and repeatedly escaped from pursuit. He escaped and is still respected by all the resistance forces in South Vietnam.

Therefore, the fighting here will continue.Making more indigenous people resent the war also squeezed out the rebels as much as possible.

The Red River Delta has been taken by the Quartet, but there are still more mountainous areas in South Vietnam waiting to be conquered.The latter is also where the resistance forces among the South Vietnamese aborigines gather today.If so, there would be no more battles involving tens of thousands of people on the land of South Vietnam, and more small-scale battles like the one in front of us would be seen.

From the perspective of the Central Plains army, this is the law and order war mentioned by Emperor Lu.

The main force of the battle is the South Vietnamese. Although the latter are short in stature and lack in strength, there are always some brave characters.As long as they keep their promises and clear rewards and punishments, these people will have enough motivation to fight for the Central Plains.

Putting on cotton armor, holding knives and guns, such and such indigenous vassals were enough to chase the South Vietnamese rebels and fled with their heads in their arms.

"Li Ming, take your people from over there and occupy the high corner tower! Sun Dalang, take your people and advance forward. Others continue to watch the surroundings, everyone remains vigilant!"

Even with the aborigines as shields, Zhong Xiangjun is not safe.Everything needs to be done carefully.

After a while, the screams of men and the cries of women broke the silence here.After the blood and fire, a large group of captives followed this army into the camp of the Central Plains army. The latter were captives, that is, slaves that could be traded.

The emergence of manpower firms on the border of South Vietnam has caused the troops of San Francisco to fall into a great incentive.Those captives are no longer just waste of food, but real money.

The mineral exploration team of the Ministry of Industry discovered a high-quality copper-iron mine in Qiongzhou, and a coal mine with superior quality in the coastal area of ​​South Vietnam. The development of both requires a lot of labor.There are also Ryukyu, and the copper, iron and coal mines in western Jiangxi, southern Hunan, and northern Hubei, and even the construction sites in Shanghai and Hong Kong. No matter how many captives there are, both men and women have been digested.

Men work as coolies, while women can be sold to miners in the mines.Although the work in the mine is highly dangerous, the wages of formal miners are also high.Moreover, there are many miners who cannot find wives, which just solves the former's worries.If it fails, can we still throw it on the market?

In any case, captives have a market, and wars make money.This gave the San Francisco soldiers and horses enough motivation to fight.And as they continued to go deep into the mountains, more and more South Vietnamese barbarians fell into the depths of the mountains where they had lived for generations, or surrendered at the foot of the Central Plains.

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Hongwu two years in February 25th.

When a Tianfang merchant ship from Guangzhou arrived at the brand-new Wusong Port, a group of local workers hurriedly surrounded it, starting the machine, pulling the sling, and a brand-new large animal pulley crane stood up. On the wharf of Wusong Port.Under the joint control of dozens of workers, the cargo on the Tianfang merchant ship was unloaded in half a day.

After several months, Faisal bin Abdul-Aziz came to Wusong Port again.In the past, it was just a simple entrance to the river, but now, it has replaced Tonghui Town and become the most important place in the Shanghai-Hong Kong area.The so-called "people from barbarians and Xia in the market place, treasures are things from the southeast" is not a lie.

Last year, Feisal spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy three shops in Wusongkou. In less than half a year, the market price has already doubled.

But this is not an important reason why Faisal hurried to Shanghai and Hong Kong.

The real reason was Emperor Lu who had already arrived in Yangzhou.

The latter's inspection of the Huainan hydraulic works along the way took most of the month and was about to come to an end.In the days to come, I will definitely inspect Shanghai and Hong Kong.

This is not only a great event for Shanghai and Hong Kong itself, but also a great event for businessmen like them.There is no distinction between Yi and Xia, and no one is willing to show their talents in order to get the praise of the Chinese emperor.

Not to mention that when the emperor went on tour, the dignitaries and dignitaries he brought with him along the way, and even the accompanying internal affairs office, were all first-class wealthy guests.

This time Feisal took out all the high-quality goods in his hands, and even bought a batch of high-quality gemstones and BMWs at high prices in Guangzhou before departure.

Gemstones have always been the flagship product of Tianfang's trade with China, although due to quantity restrictions, the total amount is far less than spices.But look at those big merchants, who doesn’t have a batch of high-quality gems in their hands?In a normal sense, these are the means by which they communicate with Chinese nobles.

However, BMW, especially the one with excellent appearance, has become a hot commodity in the Chinese market recently.

Especially the nobles in Yidu, everyone is willing to spend a lot of money to buy high-quality horses.That kind of energy is not just about finding a good horse mount.

For what reason, Faisal had no way of knowing.But this is a good thing for him and for the entire Tianfang merchants.

It is very difficult for a large number of horses to travel across the ocean and arrive in China from heaven.But a small amount of famous BMW horses is fine.Not to mention that India also has fine horses...

Anyway, as long as there is a sales market in China, as long as they are profitable, businessmen will flock to them.

Feisal got off the boat early and didn't go straight to his shop, but sat down in a teahouse outside the pier.Faisal, who has been traveling between the East and the West for many years, and even bought a house in Guangzhou, is a standard China hand, not only can write Chinese characters, but also is proficient in Chinese.

We know very well the role of teahouses in China, as they are the best place for information circulation.

Sure enough, Feisal had just entered the seat, and before the attendant who had gone to find Dr. Bao to buy newspapers came back, he heard people at the next table discussing interesting stories about Emperor Lu's southern tour.

That is the emperor is kind and loving, and the queen is virtuous and virtuous.

Emperor Lu spent a lot of money along the way.The first is the local material supply. It is not a free request for local materials, but all the people from the Purchasing Department of the Internal Affairs Office invite people to bid.

Bidding in sections!This is a very fresh approach.Ask those merchants to bid for contracts and supply along the way based on a benchmark value.

Except for a few local products offered by the local government, the "army" with a total size of more than 7000 people going south, all the grain, eggs, poultry, livestock, freshwater fish, melons, etc. needed along the way were supplied by the winning businessmen.

If something went wrong, at least the merchants themselves would be punished, or at worst, their homes would be confiscated and their clans would be exterminated, which would also affect the officials and gentry under the joint protection.

Not everyone can participate in the bidding casually. The latter needs the joint guarantee of state and county officials. If there is a problem, the joint officials will also suffer.This may lead to a lot of collusion between officials and businessmen, but it also guarantees the purity of the group of bidding merchants to the greatest extent.

After all, this matter of bidding and bidding, as long as the trip is proper, it will be used as an example to appear on a large scale in the construction of national projects.

As it turned out, the labor camps were not enough.Just like it turns out, the bidding matters are feasible.

The emperor and his party entered Huainan from Qilu, and none of the three suppliers along the way made mistakes.Although all ghosts understand, the three of them would rather lose money than short of Yujia's supply.

Although this business was laborious and did not make any money, and even had to pay a large sum of money, the merchants got the honor they had dreamed of for a long time, and gained an impressive social status. No amount of money can buy it.

The great feudalism has not yet begun, and the title of "National Scholars" has not dropped in value.The door for merchants to spend money to buy honor has not yet been opened.In this way, the honor of being a contractor for Emperor Lu is very eye-catching.There is a halo of the emperor on his head.

Emperor Lu also saved money, which is a win-win situation.

Don't mention this, let's talk about why Emperor Lu started the 'tendering and contracting' mode?
There are so many projects across the country, how can they be accomplished only by labor reform?And this kind of system can only be used for a while. When the world is peaceful and the country is in peace, there will still be so many reform-through-labour prisoners?

Rethinking the corruption in officialdom, the tofu project was not limited to the end of the 20th century, and it was even more numerous in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.He just remembered a post he read in his previous life saying that in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the construction of the Huanghuai River was costly, and it would cost millions in ordinary years.But such a huge amount of money is really used in river defense, probably two or three out of ten.

There are also some specific figures and examples in the post. Thinking about it now, it may not be true, but the impact on Emperor Lu is huge.

Especially after the repeated vacancies of reform-through-labour prisoners on the construction site in Shanghai and Hong Kong made him soberly aware of the shortcomings of the policy of 're-education through labor'.In this way, Emperor Lu came up with the idea of ​​turning the Ministry of Industry from "the world's number one construction company" into a simple engineering supervision and quality inspection unit.

This bidding contract is his first attempt.

Although it is impossible to solve the problem of engineering corruption once and for all, as long as the system is rigorous, it will always be much better.At least it is much more reliable than relying solely on reform-through-labour prisoners.

This matter has already spread in Jiangnan.Many people are talking about it, because this model is not only novel, but also profitable for businessmen.Feisal just listened to the bidding and bidding, which was very fresh and exciting.And these things, he had never heard of them in Guangzhou.

Although Guangzhou is rich and there are many fan merchants living there, it is really too far away from the political center of China.

(End of this chapter)