Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 305 The Crying Exiled Gentleman

The route of Yongli’s return to the imperial court was not a direct flight to Dagukou, and other activities were arranged for him during the journey, which was regarded as a way to inspect and condolences to the masses.

The first stop was Batavia, which had been renamed Coconut City according to local custom. At this time, it was more prosperous in the hands of the Ming Dynasty than in the hands of the Dutch.The Ming Dynasty completely controlled navigation and trade in the South China Sea, and continuously transported various "immigrants" from the mainland, causing the population of Java to grow rapidly, and even the number of Chinese was no less than the number of local natives.

Pan Mingyan had already used the power of the vassal army to eliminate the local native sultanate and completed the formal unification of Java, and Java was subsequently recognized by the Council of Governors and upgraded to the Java Consolation Division.

The important islands around the Greater Sunda Islands, regardless of whether there is any actual Ming Dynasty’s general control, anyway, the Ming Dynasty’s Political Council has set up administrative divisions: Java Island, the attached Bali Island and other Lesser Sunda Islands, belongs to the Java Consolation Department ; Restore the old Hong Kong Xuanweisi on Sumatra Island; set up Boni Xuanweisi on Borneo Island, rule in the new city of Pontianak; set up Suwei Xuanweisi on Sulawesi Island, rule in Makassar; Lujia Xuanweisi is governed in Ambon.

Most of these colonies directly received the influence of the Dutch. Later, Bai Mingxiu simply regarded these places as places of exile. Except for some immigrants from Fujian, Guangdong and other provinces, most of them were forcibly repatriated.Many immigrants are guilty of crimes, and the labor period starts at 15 years. When they first came here, they felt that they had come to a barbaric land and were about to die soon.However, thanks to Nanming's awareness of health care, most of these people lived well and accepted their fate.

Apart from the five Departments of Propaganda and Consolation, the largest Irian Island is temporarily incorporated into the Australian territory. The Ming people actually just planted a flag on it, set up a lighthouse, a monument of sovereignty, and so on, and did not develop it at all.Daming on the Malay Peninsula did not expand on a large scale. Some soldiers and civilians from Yecheng established a trading port in Singapore, and further attacked the Dutch forces to maintain the situation that Ming ruled the South China Sea.

Zhu Youlang landed in Yecheng, and was immediately warmly welcomed by the people of Yecheng.Although Bai Mingxiu has been promoting new civilizations and customs, when Zhu Youlang stepped off the ship, the people of Yecheng who came to greet him at the pier knelt down, and some even cried bitterly with excitement.

Among the people in Yecheng, many of them came to Nanyang because they couldn't survive in the mainland. Pan Mingyan and others are almost like this. With Bai Mingxiu as a backer, they have made a fortune, but they still feel that they are small people in their hearts. , to be able to see the emperor's Tianyan, I was so excited that I couldn't be more excited.

On the other hand, most of the people who wept bitterly were immigrants from the mainland, and many of them were wealthy households in the south of the Yangtze River.Bai Mingxiu ordered Zheng Chenggong to carry out the Great Purge in the south of the Yangtze River, which really killed a lot of people.Those who committed crimes, those who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, basically became hard labor without death. After they were sent to Java, they had no property and only a very meager salary.It was considered a light punishment, and they were allowed to bring some family property. At least they bought fields and land in Java. Some of them were well-established, and they even started to run plantations, commercial trading companies and so on.

But no matter what, these people were kicked out of their hometown by Bai Mingxiu, and from their original prominent family background, they became people who went to a distant country now.They were resentful towards the prince overseeing the country.They were even more excited to see the emperor today.

The landlord Yuan Xihe couldn't help it at this moment, holding a blood book in his hand, he wanted to rush forward.

But his friend beside him, Han Zhong who also came from the south of the Yangtze River with him, grabbed Yuan Xihe.

"Brother Yuan, what do you want to do?!"

Yuan Xihe said: "Brother Han, don't drag me, I want to sue! The emperor has come here, as long as we make a statement to him and cry about the pain of us leaving our hometown and depriving our family property, he will definitely understand us and let us go back to our hometown!" "

"You're crazy!" Han Zhong grabbed him desperately.

"Look around. This place is full of vassal soldiers. If you rush up, you will be killed as an assassin immediately. And you and I have broken the law. How can we sue again?"

Yuan Xihe said: "It's just that the pressure on the rent is a bit heavy. I bought some muddy fields at a low price. How could it become a serious crime?"

While they were entangled, several Jiangnan gentry like Yuan Xihe came to Yongli crying.

Yongli was originally happy, but he didn't expect someone to cry in front of him. He had rarely dealt with such things and didn't know what to do.However, he still asked someone to call Yuan Xihe and others over.

"Why are you crying here?"

Yuan Xihe took the first step, kowtowed in front of Zhu Youlang, and shouted: "Your Majesty, please forgive the rudeness of the student. The student Yuan Xihe, a person from Yingtianfu in the south of the Yangtze River, was a Juren in the seventh year of Chongzhen. Originally, he was just a farmer in the village. Ordinary scholars, after being invaded by the Tartars, looked forward to the return of the Great Tomorrow Army day and night. Unexpectedly, after the Prince’s army returned, the students and friends from the village were all raped, convicted for no reason, and sent to Java. Please also Your Majesty is merciful, let the students go back to their hometown, and they can also guard their ancestors, so that they will not be unworthy descendants!"

Zhu Youlang is soft-hearted, has no opinion at all, and believes whatever he hears.There are also a few landlords and gentry who are in a similar situation to Yuan Xihe, and they all cried.These people are often not convicted of particularly serious crimes, but their family properties are fined, and they are forcibly sent to the colonies, and they are stipulated that they cannot return to the mainland for 50 years.Their personal freedom is not restricted like those hard laborers, so they can come to the pier to cry to Yongli.

"How can Xuan'er act like this? These are all scholars of my Daming, how can this be so..." Zhu Youlang was very angry, and immediately wanted to open his mouth to agree to these people.

But Queen Wang was more assertive. She grabbed Zhu Youlang and said, "Your Majesty, these people keep saying that they are innocent, so that means they were framed by the prince? Xuan'er is a sensible child." , not to be nonsense. On the contrary, their words are so unsubstantiated, and it is arbitrary to believe that what they say is true just by listening to what they say."

Yuan Xihe was terrified, and quickly argued: "Queen, the student never lied! Maybe... maybe it wasn't the prince who wronged us, but the villain next to the prince!"

Queen Wang was even more angry, she said: "The villain next to the prince? As far as I know, the person who purges the south of the Yangtze River is King Ying. On your side, are you accusing Lord Guoxing of slandering your villain?"

"This..." Yuan Xihe was dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)