Chapter 573: Expanding the War and Stimulating the Economy
After the military occupation of Annan Kingdom, except for senior officials familiar with colonial rule and assimilation education, who were familiar with colonial rule and assimilation education, directly commanded the newly established Jiaozhi Governor.
The Thirteen Prefectures, established based on the Thirteenth Xuanfu Department under the former Annan Commander's Office, was directly transferred from local officials familiar with the assimilation of alien races in the south of the Mo and northern Mo, or from grassroots officials who had experience in the southwest of the land and return to the land, and then began to carry out a Chinese rule on Jiaozhi.
During the Yongle period, the Ming Dynasty failed to rule over Jiaozhi. The big reason was that it only carried out military occupation and appointments of upper-level officials, without fundamentally changing the basis of Jiaozhi. This time, the Ming Dynasty had to completely replace the basis of Jiaozhi's rule.
It is not only reflected in the fact that grassroots officials were transferred by the Ministry of Personnel of the Ming Dynasty, but also in the fact that His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty immediately issued an order to join the Ming Dynasty household registration, follow the customs of the Han people, and change their clothes and tie their hats, the Ming Dynasty will not confiscate their private property and land and protect them, and will also enjoy the same welfare benefits as the Ming people for the lower class.
However, for those who refuse to change customs, they will be directly transferred to the second-class person, organized into slave labor camps, and participated in the construction of the Jiaozhi Administration Commission. For those who intend to resist, they will directly implement a joint position system, that is, if one person in each Jia resists the Ming Dynasty, all the people in one Jia will be killed.
On the one hand, the temptation of the welfare of arable land without taxes and corvee service and enjoying free education, business, military and official positions, and on the other hand, the harsh treatment of the workplace is that the people of all walks of life in the Jiaozhi Governor's Office are naturally willing to choose to obey the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
However, in order to prevent the remnants of the separatist regime of the former Annan Kingdom from having the opportunity to rekindle, when dealing with the four major surnames of Zheng Ruan and Wumo and their affiliated Jiaozhi landlords, they directly slaughtered them on the charge of helping the thieves or failing to suppress the thieves.
Although this also leads to sporadic rebellions in the next few years, it will completely kill the opportunity for these indigenous families to become owners of this land again.
In short, in order to make this land completely a province of the Ming Dynasty, it is necessary to adopt the means of iron-blooded high pressure and cultural output at the same time.
For this reason, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of Ming Dynasty specially issued an order to transfer 100,000 wealthy families in Jiangnan to enrich Jiaozhi. This not only weakens the control of the gentry who have transformed into merchants over Jiangnan, but also allows them to take the Han culture they have mastered in Jiaozhi, a land that has not yet been fully developed.
However, unexpectedly, less than a month after the Ming Dynasty completely occupied the Jiaozhi Administrator's Office.
According to the proposal of the Ministry of War, Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, decided to strike while the iron was hot, and ordered the First Army to move south and the Fourth Army to mobilize a total of more than 150,000 troops, except for the troops left by Jiaozhi, to directly attack his important land Wudong on the grounds that the Zhen La Kingdom and the Hou Li Dynasty were in a mess, and did not help the Ming Dynasty to suppress the bandits.
The Zhenla Kingdom was caught off guard, and their troops were still limited to the era of spears and big swords. Even many tribes were short of iron tools or had low iron craftsmanship, which made some troops even use wooden sticks and bamboo as weapons.
Because of this, in the face of guns, cannons and poisonous gas bullets, these indigenous troops naturally could not withstand the attack of the Ming army, and at most they would use the mountain jungle to resist stubbornly.
According to the plan of the Ministry of War, since it was so easy to attack Annan, it decided to directly pacify Zhenla, Siam, Laos, Dongxu and other countries within one year, and then unify the entire Southeast Asian Peninsula and completely transfer Nanyang into the Ming Dynasty.
However, it was not really smooth sailing to unify the entire Southeast Asian Peninsula. As the Ming Dynasty's ambition to unify the entire Southeast Asian Peninsula and include it in the scope of the Ming Dynasty's rule became increasingly obvious, some Southeast Asian separatist forces that had not yet been destroyed no longer participated in internal strife and were busy thinking of various ways to resist the Ming Dynasty.
Due to the complex geographical conditions in this area, it caused certain difficulties to the Ming Dynasty's war process.
However, Zhu Youxiao did not give up, but simply transferred a total of 200,000 troops from the Second Army and the Third Army to the Southeast Asian battlefield again, and went out to fight from Guangxi, Yunnan and other places respectively.
According to Zhu Youxiao's intention, he wanted to pull all the troops of the Ming Dynasty and attack from all directions in turn. This not only trains the army but also causes the local regime in Southeast Asia to fall into the quagmire of war, prompting the intensification of internal conflicts and completely disintegrate them.
The Ming Navy's South China Sea Fleet and the Ocean Fleet carried out repeated artillery bombardment of various fortresses along the coastline from the South China Sea to the Bay of Bengal, directly focusing on its rear bases.
In this way, from Yunnan to Guangxi, from Guangxi to Jiazhi, and then the entire sea area, the Ming Dynasty was basically in a strategic siege of Southeast Asia.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty directly used this to increase the army. After retiring from the army, soldiers who went to local military academies or served as military officers and soldiers were summoned back, and the amount of recruitment was immediately expanded, directly expanding the army by 600,000. After three months of training, 300,000 troops were directly dispatched to the south.
The military industry, which had already been incurred in the Ming Dynasty, was completely driven by the fact that several large-scale manufacturing workshops under the Ordnance Department immediately changed their production mode and began to produce guns and ammunition on a large scale. Prices that began to decline among the people immediately rose, especially the prices of crops also rebounded.
The decline in employment rates due to the improvement of production technology and the influx of migrant population has also begun to rebound.
Because of this war, the Ming Dynasty's economy continued to enter a state of healthy development.
With the continuous expansion of the newly occupied areas, transportation trunks that play an important role in controlling the newly occupied areas need to be built immediately, and some key passes also need to be built. In addition, logistics and military transportation and the return of raw materials plundered from these newly occupied areas require a large amount of manpower, namely slaves.
Therefore, it has become inevitable to plunder indigenous people from various colonies or directly plunder the indigenous population in newly occupied areas, and the scale of trade in selling white pigs and Kunlun slaves from Europe and Africa is also increasing.
In order not to completely overwhelm the local population of the Ming Dynasty in terms of population size.
Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to order that in the future, people who were not registered in the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty would be forced to be castrated, rather than those who were not castrated, would not be allowed to be trafficked into the Ming Dynasty, and their human trafficking company would also be subject to huge fines.
In this way, the Jiaozhi Governor and the already-sinized local people in the areas occupied by the Ming Dynasty were lucky enough to escape the bad luck of extinction, and were unwilling to accept the trend of assimilation and forced the local people who were willing to do slave labor at the bottom to face the fate of being cut off from their descendants.
However, because the number of slave workers to perform this operation is really huge, the Ministry of Health has to send a large number of medical staff to help these human trafficking companies. Zhu Youxiao also ordered the Ministry of Revenue to allocate one million silver dollars to provide postoperative drug treatment support and surgical instrument support.
Chapter completed!