Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 439 Luzon Hua Village
Although I haven't sailed for a long time at sea, it is a very good thing for people who participate in global voyages to get off the ship to relax and feel the solid land.Manila under the control of the Ming Dynasty was only more prosperous than during the Spanish colonial rule, and even the size of the city expanded by one-third, and it was developing at an astonishing speed.

At one time, more than 3 people visited Manila, making this emerging city more lively.

Most of the people here have never been to Luzon and want to visit Luzon. Especially those who live in the local area have never tasted fruits such as coconuts, bananas and mangoes here. Since they are here, Naturally not to be missed.

Markets in Manila have become very bustling these days, and various small vendors are selling their wares, most of which are tropical fruits and local snacks.Half of the vendors are Chinese and half are natives, and they are all relatively harmonious.Daming is relatively tolerant towards its own propaganda department, residents of other ethnic groups are also recognized as citizens of Daming, and their rights to personal property are recognized.Although generally speaking, the Chinese from the mainland have a sense of superiority over the natives, but the natives can also live in their own way.

The advantage of the Chinese in Luzon is still reflected in their economic status. After the official establishment of the Xuanwei Division, the Luzon Xuanwei Division also carried out an agrarian revolution, imitating the domestic agricultural cooperatives, and allocated large tracts of "ownerless" land to the colonists here. Chinese, these Chinese must move their household registration to Luzon before they can divide their land. Otherwise, they will divide their land in their hometown and get the land again when they come to Luzon.The Chinese formed agricultural cooperatives based on villages and towns to carry out collective production.Since the land area allocated in Luzon is very large, it is normal for ordinary people to allocate tens of acres to hundreds of acres, and the land condition is not as cultivated as in the mainland. A lot of land needs a lot of reclamation and a lot of manpower, so we only The strength of the cooperative can be gathered, and everyone can reclaim the land together.

And there are also relatively wealthy Chinese like Chen Baoquan, who directly purchased large tracts of land from Xuanweisi, or directly reclaimed wasteland under authorization and developed it into their own plantations.In the beginning, these plantations were basically invited to come to Luzon to cultivate and manage local people of the same clan or folks in the same township, and some local natives were also hired.However, this kind of tropical plantation is also under the agricultural cooperative.However, the agricultural cooperatives basically can't allocate labor to the large plantation owners, and the large plantation owners can only spend money to hire native people, or hire people from the local area.

The original land of most of the natives was basically recognized by the Xuanweisi Office.However, in Luzon, the social structure of the indigenous people is between the slave society and the feudal society. Except for some urban areas, large areas of the countryside have a political entity called Barangay, whose leader or chief is Datu.The people in the village have a personal attachment to Datu, and must be loyal and serve Datu.

The Spaniards were unable to control the vast rural areas, so they appointed datumen as local administrators, implemented a method similar to a tax farming system, and distributed land to datumen.In another dimension, the power of these Datus continues into the 21st century. Some people say that Philippine politics is a game of more than 100 families. This is because these families basically existed as powerful people hundreds of years ago. .The colonists relied on these people to control the Philippines.

However, after the arrival of the Ming people, the situation changed a little.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the Xuanweisi system, and the Xuanweisi set up prefectures, counties, towns, and towns, which were the same as the local provinces.For areas that cannot be controlled, Daming simply announced temporary tax exemptions, but did not recognize Datu's status, or even the possession of land and other means of production.Some Datu were also disposed of as Spanish lackeys.

On the other hand, Chinese immigrants began to build new villages and towns on the cleaned Datu land and on new lands. This was the administrative unit directly under the Xuanwei Department, also commonly known as "Hua Village".The people living here, meaningless Chinese and natives, are all recognized as identities and have basic personal freedom and property rights.

In the early days, some aborigines farmed land for agricultural cooperatives and Chinese employers with fear. The Chinese farmers taught them how to tend the crops and plant cash crops together. Already a huge sum of money.They were allowed to own their own houses, and even their children were required to be sent to learn Chinese in schools built by Chinese immigrants. It can be said that the living conditions of the natives living in Huacun have improved significantly.

In the past in the Barangay of Datu, they were slaves and the human property of Datu. They were beaten and scolded, and sometimes they were killed.But to live in Huacun, although you have to pay almost hard labor, you can basically eat enough, and you can have more personal property.

Under such conditions, some natives living in Barangay began to flee to Huacun. They often came naked and prayed to Chinese employers to hire them. Then the Chinese employers would take out a piece of paper and ask them to work in the village. After the fingerprints are pressed on it, they are legal employees of the Huacun Agricultural Cooperative and are protected by the Department of Publicity and Comfort.

Anyway, the Luzon Xuanwei Department does not recognize Datu's personal dominance over these natives. Even if the native Datu leads people to make trouble immediately, the rural cooperatives will fight back.Even after the incident became serious, the Department of Propaganda and Consolation would invite the Marine Corps stationed in Luzon to take action, directly wipe out the troubled Datu, and "take it as state-owned" in Barangay.

After more than a dozen Datus were wiped out in this way, the other Datus became more honest and did not dare to trouble Huacun easily.And just like that, Huacun became more and more, a large number of plantations were established one after another, and the development of Luzon became more and more smooth.

It is also against this background that many natives who have obtained the status of "free people" have appeared in the market in Manila, and they have come here with carts to sell their products. Some of them are selling their own goods. , and some are selling goods on behalf of their own agricultural cooperatives.

Bai Mingxiu made a few laps at this market, bought some dried mangoes and fresh coconuts, and he found that although the natives here speak very poor Chinese, they can speak some vocabulary very well, such as ten coins, no If you sell or make a deal.

He even saw a group of elementary school students wearing yellow hats after school on the street. Most of them were Chinese children, and there were also a few native children. At least watching the children laughing, it seemed that the native children had begun to accept Chinese culture.

Bai Mingxiu walked away from the market and saw the Manila Cathedral on the other side. In the setting sun, this seemingly glorious church was actually very dilapidated. The door was closed and no one had come in for a year.

(End of this chapter)