Daming 1805

Chapter 383 Nanyang Reserved Area

The current Lion City is a highly prosperous industrial and commercial city.

The total local population has exceeded 200 million, twice that of Singapore during World War II.

Because the status of the Lion City in the Ming system far exceeds its status in the British colonial system.

It is located at the southernmost tip of Shenou Continent, and it is the end of the radiating range of the local land forces of Ming Dynasty.

It is the traffic throat of Daming Ocean and Xiaoxiyang, and the most important fulcrum for Daming to control these two oceans.

It is an important intersection of the southernmost land and sea lines of communication in the mainland of Ming Dynasty, and it is the southernmost naval base that can be directly connected to the core of the mainland on land.

It is the ruling center and economic center of Ming Dynasty in Nanyang region.

When Zhu Jingyuan's fleet was still far away from Shicheng Port, he could see all kinds of ships coming and going around.

When you go to the sea off Shicheng Port, you can even see the world's largest fleet entering and leaving.

At present, the largest ship in the world is an [-]-ton super passenger ship. There are currently only three ships in the world, and one is currently parked in Shicheng Port.

The Lion City is also a very pure oriental city.

When the boat he was on was approaching the pier, Zhu Jingyuan looked as far as he could, and the scene he could see directly was no different from the ports and cities in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty.

During the great development and expansion of industry and commerce, the traces left by the Taixi people have already completely disappeared.

The traces of the more ancient Johoreans are also diluted and completely invisible.

The passenger ship that Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang took did not enter the busy civilian wharf, but docked directly at the military wharf.

Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang took their families ashore, greeted the officials from all walks of life in Nanyang who came to welcome them, and then went down to rest under the guidance of the service staff.

The location of the Lion City is special enough, the royal consortium has many properties here, and the royal family also has their own garden here, Zhu Jingyuan can live in it directly.

Zhu Jingyuan settled his family down, first sent Zhu Zhongliang back to his hometown, and then started his own work.

The main officials from all over Nanyang also made an appointment, and came together to formally meet with the governor.

After accepting the worship from the officials, Zhu Jingyuan asked straight to the point:
"Everyone, if you have any more complicated problems in the Nanyang region, or any more difficult things that are difficult to deal with in our local area, you can report them to me to find a solution."

Zhu Jingyuan was so direct that the officials at the scene were a little stunned.

Finally, Malacca Chief Envoy Xiao Jinan stood up and said:
"I report to Your Highness that the situation in our Nanyang region is stable, the market is prosperous, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. There is no difficulty."

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and waved his hand:
"You don't have to just say nice things to me, I'm here to solve problems for you, not to ask questions.

"Whether there is a problem or a difficulty, don't hide it, just speak it out.

"If there is any matter or decision, if it is inconvenient for you ordinary officials to come forward and make a decision, leave it to me."

Xiao Jinan continued helplessly:
"We don't really have any difficulties here right now.

"A few years ago, we did have a lot of troubles here, but you have already solved them.

"The opening up of the six major industries has reactivated the market, and the withdrawal of feudal vassals and establishment of provinces has fulfilled the long-cherished wish of hundreds of officials and people.

"Minimum wages, maximum working hours, military and social welfare systems allow Nanyang people to live and work in peace and contentment.

"The issue of the natives already has a guiding plan given by you.

"Now, both the officials and the people, all deeply appreciate your kindness from Your Highness."

Zhu Jingyuan had a slightly weird expression.

I came to Nanyang from Yinzhou, and came to a place close to the mainland of Ming Dynasty.

It is also close to the place where the impact of the reform is most direct.

Malacca was the first batch of vassal states to withdraw their vassal states.

The current Chief Minister of Malacca, Xiao Jinan, is the original history of the left of Malacca.

At the beginning, he was transferred from the chief history of the feudal state to Malacca to participate in politics. After the three-year term expired, he passed the assessment and was directly promoted to be the chief minister.

After all, there is a shortage of officials in Ming Dynasty now, and these officials from vassal states basically do not suffer any discrimination.

As long as they are qualified in terms of ability, they will also be promoted directly when they expire.

And the starting point of all this is the reforms that Zhu Jingyuan first proposed and promoted to complete.

Therefore, the local and feudal officials were more impressed with Zhu Jingyuan than the shopkeepers of Xintianfu.

At the same time, under the influence of these reform measures, all parts of Daming have also entered a stage of great development.

When the tide goes out, you can see who is swimming naked.

On the other hand, when the tide is high, it is difficult to see what is underwater.

The current Ming Dynasty is at the rising tide stage, even if there are some minor problems, they will be covered up by the dividends of development.

Zhu Jingyuan continued to ask helplessly:
"Is there really no problem found? Is there really no need for my special help?

"Take it as a small talk today, don't care about big and small things, you can talk to me about it.

"I just came here, and I need to have an entry point to understand our situation."

A group of officials looked at each other again, and finally Xiao Jinan said uncertainly:

"If you have to say that there is a problem, there is really a problem.

"There are still not enough officials, so the progress of things in all aspects is always relatively slow, from top to bottom.

"We know that this kind of thing can't be rushed. Now that the school is expanding its enrollment, it should be fine after these few years.

"If your Highness can help, please send us more college students from Nanyang."

Zhu Jingyuan nodded slightly after listening:
"This is indeed a problem, but it is not Nanyang's own problem.

"If I want more students for Nanyang, won't there be fewer other places?

"Didn't Xiao Buzheng say just now that this kind of thing can't be rushed, it will be fine after these few years.

"Everyone should carry more burdens on themselves in recent years.

"Not enough officials are good enough, wouldn't everyone's promotion be faster?
"So now everyone is not working more for nothing..."

When Zhu Jingyuan said this, there was a relatively restrained laughter at the scene.

Zhu Jingyuan waited for everyone to finish laughing before continuing on his own:

"It seems that everyone really doesn't want to ask me questions, so I can only find the questions myself.

"After I find the problem, everyone can't keep covering it."

The officials suddenly smiled very restrainedly.

The atmosphere of today's meeting is quite harmonious.

Zhu Jingyuan chatted briefly with the officials for a while, and then let them go to work.

Then I really started to find my own problems.

In the following days, Zhu Jingyuan was active in various yamen in Lion City.

Look through the archives and dossiers, and inquire about various data in recent years.

From the statistical point of view, the Nanyang region can really be said to be a thriving situation at present.

Factories, businesses, commodities, taxes, the number of newlyweds, newborns, and other data are all surging forward.

At the same time, the local crime rate has also shown a downward trend.

Ordinary people can earn money relatively easily, and the most common small-scale crimes will naturally decrease.

Malacca, which has the best location conditions, is of course developing very rapidly.

But even in the inland areas of Siam and Myanmar, the locals have a better way out.

It really looks like a prosperous scene of burning oil.

And it's a prosperous and prosperous era of getting richer and richer, not just a prosperous era of more and more hungry people.

Problems do exist, of course.

The first is the issue of ethnicity.

Taking Malacca as an example, the total local population is more than 700 million, of which there are over 300 million pure Ming people, and there are more than 200 million pure natives, with 400 million mixed races in between.

The situation in other places such as South Vietnam, Siam, Myanmar, Borneo, Java, Old Port, and Luzon is similar.

Indigenous people and mixed races are not the problem, the problem is the cognition of the indigenous people.

The aborigines of Yinzhou and the Pacific Islands are infinitely close to the primitive society in their social culture.

Although Yin Zhou's civilization level is slightly higher, but he was wiped out by the Taixi people once, and has basically lost his self-awareness.

Therefore, the people of Daming and Zhu Jingyuan regard them as the former mountain crossers, and the policy towards them is mainly to assimilate them.

However, most of the aborigines on the Nanyang Peninsula and some islands have the most basic civilization system.

There have even been dynasties that have been passed down for hundreds of years, and many have accepted the Tianfang Sect from the Dashi area.

Although these dynasties no longer exist, the country has been replaced by the clan and vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the situation in the era of Emperor Shizu was very complicated. Except for Japan, the most special case of Nizi, not all other surrounding vassal states were wiped out by force.

It is also because at the technical level at that time, it was difficult to implement a complete military conquest of tropical regions such as Southeast Asia.

Emperor Shizu basically acted both hard and soft, and gradually abolished the original monarch and changed it to the Daming vassal.

Therefore, the descendants of the original monarchs of many foreign countries, as well as the loyal subjects of the original monarchs, have not been completely exterminated.

So far, there are still quite a few natives of the feudal kingdom who still retain this part of their memories.

They are not opposed to joining Ming Dynasty, because their original countries are basically vassal states and tributary states of Ming Dynasty.

But they still expect their original national name and ethnic heritage to continue to exist.

There are still many aborigines who continue to believe in Tianfang religion.

At present, they just keep this expectation, and they don't have the ability and actions to rebel.

After the Ming Dynasty had actually annexed these vassal states, it was difficult for the Ming court to continue to make the decision to exterminate them.

But Zhu Jingyuan found it hard to believe that once the situation of the Ming court collapsed, they would continue to stay honest.

Therefore, in the vicinity of the mainland of Ming Dynasty, facing the natives of Nanyang whose culture was close to that of Ming Dynasty, the policies of the Ming court were not all about assimilation.

Now Zhu Jingyuan's plan of vacating cages and changing birds and reserve areas is being implemented.

Zhu Jingyuan initially gave Mindanao, Sulawesi and Solomon Islands three candidates.

In the end, the Ming court chose the most remote Solomon Islands.

Officials in the entire Nanyang region are selectively sending some aborigines to reservation areas.

The problem lies in this "choice".

What kind of people should be sent away and what kind of people can be kept, different officials have different judgments in their minds.

In addition to sending away the real old and young, most officials are used to sending away the real savages as well.

Those who have a basic level of education and can work under the management of Ming officials will stay.

But in Zhu Jingyuan's view, this kind of operation is not appropriate.

The reserved area is to set aside an area for people who are not convenient to manage, so that they can live independently in their own way.

At the same time avoid its continuing to affect the population of other regions.

Therefore, after Zhu Jingyuan learned about the implementation of the plan to vacate cages and birds and reserve areas, he directly issued a new order in the name of the governor to uniformly adjust and standardize the existing vacancy rules.

All Tianfang believers were transferred to the reservation area, but they were all concentrated on two or three islands.

The old and the young from the original countries were all transferred to the reservation area, but they were all concentrated on two or three islands.

All kinds of criminals who refused to mend their ways after repeated admonitions, criminals who were bad in nature but not guilty of death, were all sent to the reservation area, and they were also concentrated on two or three islands.

The three types of people are completely separated and managed separately, and the priorities of the three identities are in descending order.

If a person has multiple identities, the priority arrangement is chosen in order.

For example, if you are both a bereaved child and a vicious criminal, then you will be dealt with according to your identity as a bereaved child.

True savages don't have to be sent to reservations.

They have been forcibly captured from the mountains, so why not continue to work hard and transform them into farmers.

Establish an offshore patrol fleet in the reserved area, completely cut off all communication inside and outside the reserved area, and isolate communication between the reserved areas.

It is forbidden for any personnel inside the reserved area to go out, and it is also forbidden for any officials to set foot on the islands of the reserved area.

It is not necessary to actively build any infrastructure on the reserve.

There is no need to send any management personnel to the reserved area, and there is no need to interfere with the social order in the reserved area.

All matters in the reserved area are at the discretion of the residents in the reserved area.

After Zhu Jingyuan's order was sent out, the officials in the Nanyang region were extremely astonished.

Xiao Jin'an, the chief envoy who is stationed in Lion City, simply came to visit Zhu Jingyuan in person.

After the two parties met and said hello, Xiao Jinan explained his intentions:

"Your Highness...I saw your latest order, requiring all officials not to set foot on the reserved island.

"If the government doesn't interfere with the affairs of the island at all, maybe the places where the Tianfang believers and those old and young are located may establish their own order.

"But if all the vicious criminals are put together, it will make it completely outside the law?"

Zhu Jingyuan smiled and nodded and said:
"That's not necessarily the case, as the saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

"We don't take the initiative to establish order, and the local people will establish local order by themselves.

"The original intention of the reserved area is to provide a space for those who cannot integrate into Daming, allowing them to live according to their own habits.

"So letting it be completely free and absolutely not doing any non-interference is the most appropriate choice.

"At the same time, we allow it to be absolutely free, and we absolutely cannot allow it to interfere with other people of Ming Dynasty.

"So we must completely isolate the inside and outside, prohibiting outsiders from going to the island, and completely prohibiting people from the island from coming down.

"As for the place beyond the law, it may not be a bad thing to have such a place.

"Some people are really born evil, and indoctrination may be just a joke to them.

"Letting them fend for themselves is the best choice for everyone."

Xiao Jinan understood what Zhu Jingyuan meant, but he still had another worry:

"However, Your Highness, the original decree issued by the imperial court was to establish a country in the local area and send officials to enlighten it.

"If we leave them alone and let them live on the island, will they eventually form pirates and criminal gangs, or even form an independent country, and then confront the government?"

Zhu Jingyuan directly shook his head and said:

"Of course the court's decree should be high-sounding, but the actual operation should not be so rigid.

"Although the court's decree said that it should be done, it didn't specify the details, and didn't arrange responsible officials, right?

"There are not enough normal officials now, how can it be possible to arrange additional bureaucrats to educate the savages in the reserve?

"Look at the reserved areas we selected, they are all places where the environment is definitely not good, and the products are not rich.

"The people who were put on the island actually had a problem with their survival.

"The point is, there is no technology, no infrastructure, no tools and machinery, no factories.

"Even if people on an island can really hug each other tightly, they can't build cannons and battleships out of thin air.

"Our patrol fleet does not need to be too large, as long as there are speedboats, machine guns, and some simple aircraft.

"It should be relatively easy to deal with people trying to escape."

(End of this chapter)