Daming 1805

Chapter 143 The New Order of Yinzhou

Nanyinzhou, Rio, the capital of the Portuguese and Brazilian colonies, has entered a state of martial law in these two days.

The third fleet of Daming Huangzhuang Xintianfu, carrying the three guards of the main army of Xintianfu Huangzhuang, handed over defense with the Portuguese in Rio City.

The commander-in-chief of the entire operation, the Duke of Jinyang of the Ming Dynasty, the fifth grandson of Li Dingguo, the general of the Ming Army, and the governor of Brazil to take over military affairs, Li Yuquan.

In the hall of the Brazilian Governor's Palace in Rio, the high-level Brazilian colonial leaders headed by Portugal's Prince João gathered together.

Surrounded by a group of guards, Li Yuquan made an official announcement and also emphasized to the high-level officials of the former Portuguese colony that the colony handover required:
"According to the peace treaties signed by Ming Dynasty with Portugal, Spain, Holland, England, France and other Thai and Western countries.

"The ownership of the entire Southern Yinzhou region, including the Brazil region, completely belongs to Daming.

"All Thai and Western immigrants and their descendants in Yinzhou can leave with their personal belongings such as gold, silver and soft goods.

"However, all the relics of the ancient Yin people must be left behind, whether they belonged to public facilities or private items.

"Anyone—shall not destroy any public property, any private property that cannot be carried, or any relics of the ancient Yin people.

"Once found, they will be forced to labor for three to 20 years, depending on the situation, and then expelled, and those in serious cases will be shot on the spot.

"If the Taixi people and their descendants want to stay in the Yinzhou area, they can only keep the basic land and property needed for life, and the rest will not be paid as officials.

"Da Ming will set up a new vassal state on the Brazilian plateau—Shang Kingdom, which will govern the Yin people and Western immigrants in the current area of ​​Yinzhou.

"Among the Yin people, those who are civilized and enlightened, that is, those who have obtained a high school diploma recognized by the Ming Dynasty and above, can use the elegant language of the Ming Dynasty to live and work on a daily basis, and can obtain the citizenship of the Shang Kingdom.

"All the citizens of the Shang Kingdom will simultaneously obtain the status of citizens of other Daming Yinzhou vassal states, and the right of permanent residence in the Ming Dynasty and other vassal states.

"Ordinary Yin people will obtain the status of citizens of the Shang country and the right of residence in other Yinzhou vassal states.

"Ordinary Yin people themselves and their descendants, if they can pass the civilization review regularly organized by the Shang state in the later period, can also obtain the citizenship of the Shang state.

"The above-mentioned Yin people all include pure-blood Yin people, as well as mixed descendants of pure-blood Yin people and Daming people.

"All descendants of Taixi people, as well as descendants of Taixi people mixed with Yin people, can temporarily obtain the right of residence in the Shang country.

"All the slaves of Mozhou, as well as the mixed descendants of any other ethnic group and the Mo people, must be taken away, otherwise they will be dealt with under the Ming system.

"Thai and Western countries have five years to transport their immigrants to leave the land of Ming Dynasty. During this period, the immigrants must pay the living expenses.

"Daming Xintianfu Huangzhuang Transportation Company can provide passenger transportation services for all personnel, but tickets must be purchased in advance.

"The officials in charge at all levels in the former Brazilian region must stay temporarily to cooperate with Daming's reception work, and Daming will pay reasonable labor remuneration.

"After receiving them, Daming will send them to wherever they want for free, including Mozhou, Taixi, and Mexico.

"Everyone, have you heard the rules clearly? If you have any questions, you can ask them now, and don't come back to question them."

Discussions immediately started at the scene.

These new regulations of Ming Dynasty directly and completely subverted the original local order.

In the original colonies of the Thai and Western countries, the highest status was of course the Thai and Western immigrants, and then the descendants of Thai and Yin mixed blood.

Then came the Yin people who could speak Thai, then the Yin natives who could not speak Thai, and finally the Mo slaves.

After the arrival of the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty who have the native citizenship of the Ming Dynasty are of course the highest status.

However, Yin people who can be "civilized" are theoretically equal to Ming people, and they are all citizens with complete rights.

In fact, this is aimed at the elite Yin people who were completely assimilated by Ming Dynasty in the original Xintianfu, as well as the mixed descendants of Ming people and Yin people.

In a sense, the merchant kingdom built by Daming on the Brazilian plateau was prepared for this group of people.

From now on, they will be the real main residents of this feudal state.

Of course, now that Ming Dynasty is implementing the reform of the vassal state, all the pure blood descendants of Ming Dynasty in the vassal state will have the citizenship of Ming Dynasty one after another.

Native citizens of Ming Dynasty have the civil rights of all Ming Dynasty feudal states.

Therefore, no matter which vassal state the Ming people go to, they want to have the same rights as the main local residents, as well as the priority rights that actually exist.

The ordinary people of the Shang Kingdom are those ordinary Yin people who have no mixed blood and no culture. They are the main body of Yin Zhou's aborigines.

They can be promoted to citizens of the Shang country through "civilization and enlightenment", which is actually a complete enlightenment transformation.

They are the potential main citizens of the business country, and they all have national identities second only to citizens.

Thai-Western immigrants and Thai-Yin mixed descendants are regarded as outsiders and cannot integrate into the Shang country through "civilization".

They only have the right of residence, and they can only be workers and farmers, or engage in low-end service industries, and cannot be any bosses or farmers.

In this way, the identities of the Taixi people and their mixed descendants, and the local ordinary Yin people were completely reversed before and after Daming took over.

The identity of the Mo people has not changed, but the management has become stricter.

For the high-level Thai-Western immigrants at the scene, the change of status of these people has little to do with them, and they must leave.

Their focus is in another direction.

The Portuguese and Brazilian nobles discussed for a while, and Prince Joao came out as a representative to ask for details:

"General Li, according to the agreement between the Portuguese-speaking Ming Dynasty, we have the right to take away all Thai-Western immigrants and Mexican slaves, and Ming Dynasty cannot force them to stay..."

Li Yuquan waved his hands directly, and said very impatiently:

"We won't force them to stay. Our Highness Prince Dashi means to let you take all of them away and leave none behind.

"It's just that we consider the actual situation. You simply don't have the ability to take all of them away, and there will definitely be some left in the end.

"Especially those self-reliant grass-headed kings in the inland, Da Ming also asked you to take them away, can you take them away?

"So Daming just formulated the rules in advance to avoid being caught off guard later.

"Da Ming has no interest in your Western Yi population and slaves."

Li Yuquan's face was full of disgust, but Joao and the Brazilian nobles were relieved.

In this era, population is a very important wealth, otherwise why would Tianzhu become the jewel in the crown of the United Kingdom...

Daming didn't care about Brazil's population, allowing the Portuguese to take them away was also an important reason why Portugal could accept the treaty.

Zhu Jingyuan participated in the discussion on the disposal of Yin Zhou's immigrants, and the final decision was basically Zhu Jingyuan's intention.

Zhu Jingyuan's original idea was, of course, to drive all the Taixi people back to their hometowns.

But Zhu Jingyuan soon realized that it was simply unrealistic to achieve this goal directly in the short term.

In the colonies of Spain and Portugal in Southern Yinzhou, the total number of Thai-Western immigrants and their descendants who speak the two languages, plus the mixed descendants of Tai-Western and Yin people, is estimated to be 3000 million.

There is still a considerable part of it in a state of separatism, which is beyond the control of the colonial governors of Portugal and Spain.

There must be a frame to temporarily hold these Thais.

In addition, Daming was required to establish a vassal state to manage the Yin people, so it happened that these Taixi people were put under the control of the Yin people.

But they can only get temporary residency, which is the lowest status among free people, and their status is only higher than that of slaves.

The purpose is to force them to return to their homeland, instead of staying in the Shang country forever.

As for the descendants of Mozhou, most of them were originally slaves of the Taixi people. The slaves belonged to private property, and of course the Taixi people were allowed to take them away.

If they really couldn't take it away, Daming could only deal with it according to the rules left by Emperor Shizu, and continue to use it as slave labor for the time being.

When Daming has spare capacity, he will send them back to their hometown in Mozhou.

According to the "one drop of ink" principle established by the emperor Shizu, as long as the ancestors have been mixed with Mo people's blood once, the descendants will be regarded as Mo people for generations.

At the same time, except for the Mozhou vassal south of the Sahara, all vassal states in the Ming mainland and other regions are not allowed to grant the Mo people the right of abode or above status.

In other words, the Mo people who appeared in areas other than Mozhou would be regarded as slaves by the Ming people.

Zhu Jingyuan intends to abolish slaves, but he does not intend to change the rules left by Emperor Shizu.

Even if Emperor Shizu specially left an excuse for modification, it would definitely be a thankless task to actually change the ancestral system.

Zhu Jingyuan's plan is to circumvent the restrictions on the ancestral system,

Americans who studied history sent Mo slaves from Yinzhou and other regions back to their hometowns one after another.

At the same time, the sale of Mexican slaves outside the Mexican continent is prohibited.

The slaves of other Hu people, Yin people, Nanyang, Persia, and Dashi ethnic groups can also adopt a similar plan.

Eventually, all slave trade was gradually and completely banned.

In this way, while slavery may continue to exist, the slaves themselves can gradually disappear.

Just like Mississippi in the United States, it was not until 2013 that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery was actually approved.

But the local slaves themselves had long since ceased to exist long before this document became legally effective.

The Portuguese and Brazilian nobles headed by Prince João continued to confirm the details with the military officers of Daming.

Most of the content was determined during the negotiation, and they were all acceptable to both parties, so there were no surprises in the middle.

Prince John signed the official handover documents, and the Thai and Western people began to be sent on board that afternoon.

Because of years of wars and bandits raging, a large number of Taixi and Yin refugees gathered in and around Rio.

This is just convenient for the Portuguese nobles to take more people away.

More than 200 years ago, they came from the continents of Thailand and Western countries and became Brazilians who spoke Portuguese, and now they are leaving in batches again.

The main direction is the Portuguese colony in Mexico.

Portugal wants to use them as the main force for the colonial development of Mexico.

The population of Brazil as a whole is nearly double that of Portugal itself.

Now as long as you can take half of it, you can build a new Portugal in Mozhou.

A small number of Portuguese nobles may choose to return to Portugal.

Those who don't want to stay in Portugal can buy their own tickets to Ming Dynasty to go to Mexico in Northern Yinzhou, or to the British and French colonies.

Some nobles and officials left with ordinary immigrants, and some stayed to cooperate with Daming to make a comprehensive handover.

The fleet of Xintianfu Huangzhuang and Royal Passenger Transport Company is transporting personnel and troops to the Rio area one by one.

The main force of the Ming Dynasty in Xintianfu is responsible for taking over Rio, the capital of Brazil, and the wealthiest coastal areas around it.

A large number of servant troops of the Yin people, under the management of Ming military officers and the guidance of Brazilian officials and translators, went deep into the interior of Brazil in batches.

Receive the local agencies and military facilities that are still under the control of the Brazilian Governor's Palace, and deliver the new Tianfu's Zhao'an Conditions to the separatist forces in various places.

At the same time, more Ming navy and fleet, carrying more Ming and Yin armies, continued northward along the east and west coastlines of Yinzhou.

They were going to take over the colonies transferred by Spain, including the two governorships of Peru and New Granada, as well as the Antilles and Texas.

There is also the Guyana area ceded by the Dutch, the Florida area ceded by the British, and the Canadian area north of the Great Lakes ceded by the French.

The treatment and conditions of the people living in all the western colonies are exactly the same as those of the Portuguese and Brazilians in Brazil.

The choice of the Dutch is similar to that of Portugal, and they are going to send immigrants to the Mexican colony.

The Spanish, British, and French interrupted their choice to go to the remaining neighboring Yinzhou colonies.

On the other side, at the northern and southern ends of the prairie in Northern Yinzhou, the vassal states of Yinzhou and the troops of the Ming Army in Rocky East were also on the move.

At the north and south ends of the prairie, a large army left the camp.

Follow the route left by bison migration, smugglers' carts, and the former Thai-Western coalition forces, and head eastward.

The tasks of the two armies of the North and the South are to take over the Northwest of the Great Lakes and Northwest of Texas respectively.

The two large troops were divided into two parts, followed by the main force composed of mules, horses, carts and ordinary infantry.

In front is the vanguard formed by the bicycle divisions of the various guards, with more than [-] bicycles in the north and south.

To modern eyes, riding a big old bicycle seems unfashionable, or cheap.

But in this era, bicycles are quite high-end industrial products, and they are also very practical military and civilian tools.

On a modern standard bicycle, there are at least three industrial bearings, as well as chains and springs with a high level of craftsmanship.

With the industrial ability to process these things, we can manufacture modern firearms.

Today's bicycle troops are also called cavalry or riders.

Compared with traditional shock cavalry, bicycle cavalry certainly has little impact.

But in the era when both bolt-action rifles and machine guns appeared, shock cavalry had already been eliminated.

Bicycle troops have much lower logistics requirements than cavalry. After all, humans are animals with the best endurance, and their energy conversion rate is also very high.

Cycling soldiers in this era can march [-] kilometers a day without roads, and they can continue to march for many days.

On long-distance marches, cavalry is no match for traditional infantry, let alone bicycle soldiers.

Bicycle soldiers were very common in World War I and played a big role in World War II.

Only after the wider spread of mechanization did it gradually withdraw from the army.

Now the Daming bicycle troops in Northern Yinzhou are all elite troops.

They marched on the northern Yinzhou prairie, and basically didn't even need to bring food, just simple tableware and weapons.

Because there is a gift of nature - Yinzhou bison.

There are 3000 to 300 million bison on the entire prairie, and an adult bison weighs over a thousand catties, and killing one is enough to feed two or [-] people.

They often act in groups, and they have no resistance at all in front of modern infantry units using bolt-action rifles.

The vanguard of the Northern Yinzhou Army rode bicycles and ate bison meat, marching eastward all the way.

Eight days later, Northern troops crossed the upper Honey River and entered the French colony, and Southern troops entered the Texas territory.

Twelve days later, Northern forces arrived at the westernmost port on the Great Lakes.

This speed is already very fast for the Army.

But at this time, the navy from Xintianfu and Xiyang Cape Huangzhuang had already crossed a distance of thousands of kilometers, took over the Guyana area, and began to enter the Antilles Islands.

Fifteen days later, the main force of the Northern Yinzhou Army began to enter the Great Lakes area.

The navy has traveled tens of thousands of kilometers, landed in New Orleans and Quebec, and captured Florida and Cuba.

(End of this chapter)