Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1926 Change and Strength ([-])

Wei Wendu stayed on the Hulunbeier Grassland for more than a week before leaving.During the period, he also got in touch with those lamas and talked about wanting to contact Galdan, but unfortunately, these lamas seemed to have no way out and looked embarrassed.But it's not bad, they finally agreed to try their best, whether it will be successful or not, the price is that the people on the east coast will help take care of one or two small tribes, as for how these two small tribes came to the vicinity, the lamas will figure out their own way. Go to negotiate with the Mongolian nobles of Horqin.

For this point, Wei Wendu felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so he readily agreed, and let Nahai's department be directly responsible for the docking.As for the rest, that is to wait patiently.For this Galdan, whether it is the Blackwater Pioneering Team or the other two towns in the south, they are very interested, because it has a great influence on the strategies of the people on the east bank in mainland China, and it is a very important but not important. The controlled variables make people feel quite at a loss.

In fact, Wei Wendu also followed the will of Chen Ke, the captain of the pioneering team, and began to develop the forces on the east bank deeper into the Manchurian and Mongolian regions, so as to integrate more forces as soon as possible, expand more territories, and make it an important barrier for Manchuria. Periphery, to protect the planned development of the Manchurian core.

At present, Galdan should be very ambitious for the tribes of Mobei Mongolia, and the people on the east coast who control part of Buryatia Mongolia are also watching from the sidelines to see if there is a chance to increase their influence in Mobei Mongolia .Even the Russian colonists who temporarily curbed their eastward thinking after being defeated by the people on the east coast had a little thought about the tribes of Mobei Mongolia.Historically, they had frequent diplomatic interactions with the Qing Dynasty, discussing how to eliminate the Junggar and Mongolian forces, and in the end the Junggar and Mongolia were indeed destroyed under the joint attack of both of them, and most of the land was shared by the two countries: Qing State got Xinjiang And part of the Qinghai region, Russia got part of Central Asia, and both sides are happy.

Therefore, the current Mongolian world contains great vitality, and at the same time, there is an extreme crisis.Vitality is the rise of heroes such as Galdan, who will unify the entire Mongolian world and establish a powerful country; crisis is internal disputes, external threats are growing, and if you are not careful, you will be destroyed by the Manchus, the East Coast, and Russia. The three hungry wolves share the food. It is really dangerous. No one can say clearly what the future will be. We have to wait and see.

After returning to Manguitun, Wei Wendu gave some guidance on agricultural production, interviewed several headmen of the fishing and hunting tribes who had moved nearby to settle down in the past year, and then nestled in his office, writing a report with all his heart, that is, about the Manchurian and Mongolian areas. The idea of ​​a "dualist system of governance".

This so-called dual system of governance is currently Wei Wendu's idea.He pondered, Manchuria (even including some outer northeast regions) is too vast, especially the Mongolian grasslands, which are sparsely populated and difficult to control.In the future, even if the people on the east bank can defeat the Mongolian tribes who refuse to take refuge on the battlefield, it will still be difficult to rule them successfully, unless the core Manchuria has tens of millions of people and factories and railways everywhere, but this Obviously it cannot be done in the short term.Therefore, they had to find a new way to rule the Mongol world.

Wei Wendu’s theory of the dual system of governance focuses on elevating the status of some Mongols—for example, some Buryat Mongols currently under the control of the east bank—and then let them develop and grow through snowballing to annex others and to Grab more pastures and control more Mongolian tribes.During this period, the influence of the people on the east coast can naturally expand with the expansion of their Mongolian forces and spread to farther places.

Of course, some people may worry that the Mongols will be out of control when they become powerful.This is of course reasonable, but people on the east bank would naturally not think of unifying all Mongolians under one name. In fact, the coexistence of several departments, mutual checks and balances, and mutual supervision are the kingly way.Wei Wendu believes that as long as the people on the east bank build up Manchuria well, enrich its population and develop its economy, they will naturally be able to maintain control over the Mongolian world for a long time. In his own hands, he has become a powerful weapon under the dual system of Northeast China.

As for some people directly controlling the Mongolian world, Wei Wendu scoffed at it, because it was impossible.Unless you spend huge manpower and material resources to build a railway system that traverses or traverses the entire Mongolian world, this can only be a preliminary control, and it is impossible to go deeper.To put it bluntly, the Mongolian world is too big, with a large population and very different cultural customs. Under the existing economic and technological conditions, it is unable to directly rule and can only engage in the agency system.The dual system of governance, improving the political treatment of the Mongols, strengthening intermarriage and communication, and spreading religion is more effective than the ordinary slave state agent system. This is the core idea of ​​​​Wei Wendu.

His report is almost finished now, and it only needs to be revised and polished before being sent to Temple Street Port for review by the leader of the development team, Chen Ke.Once he agrees, then he can order the implementation of this policy, and at the same time, Wei Wendu will also come into the eyes of the upper class, and his political future will be very promising.

However, the political status of other ethnic groups other than the Mongols is not as high as that of the Mongols in Wei Wendu’s plan, such as the Oroqen, Daur, Ewenki, Jurchens and other Tungusic ethnic groups, as well as Koreans, Japanese, Russians, etc. People of foreign races, both inside and outside, need to be directly ruled and receive East Coast education.In other words, they will eventually lose their national and cultural characteristics and integrate into a system with Ming people as the main body and East Coast culture as the main civilization feature.This can be seen from the fact that people from the east coast wantonly set up schools in the outer Northeast and Manchuria to engage in assimilation education. They think that the population of these Tungusic peoples is not very large, but they are very messy. Low, and there is no glorious history-well, Daur people may be inappropriate as the descendants of Khitan, but it doesn't matter-especially the latter, a glorious history means that the national consciousness is relatively strong, and there may be Having their own fixed territory, just like the Mongols, in terms of the current situation, it is extremely difficult to assimilate.After all, they basically have the three elements of national composition, land, language, and cultural traditions, which makes it difficult to handle.

On the contrary, if it is like the Tungus Shandan savages, the difficulty of assimilation is very low, and they themselves should not be too resistant to this kind of behavior of embracing advanced civilization, so the people on the east coast have been persistently trying to assimilate the Tungus people in the territory for many years Let them gather and live in villages, let them improve the production technology of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery, let them go to school, let them accept the lifestyle of all the people on the east coast. It seems that some initial results have been achieved so far, and they will definitely be able to digest them all in the future.

In late May 1685, when Wei Wendu was thinking about the future development of Manchuria and Mongolia in Manguitun, Chen Ke, who was far away in Boli County, was also saying goodbye to local officials on the dock.

Because of the warmth of spring and the blooming of flowers, the well-developed water system in the outer northeast can gradually come in handy.No, today there are four ships departing from the port of Khabarovsk, and then going up the Ussuri River, arriving at some settlements or villages in the upper reaches-in order to maximize the utilization efficiency of ships, in fact, they are not only in Dagang Stay, even some important villages will stop for a short time, and then load and unload goods.

The four ships are mainly loaded with daily necessities and food.Boli County, as a place with a very prominent transportation location advantage, currently has many handicraftsmen settled down, and the various handicrafts and daily necessities produced are sold throughout the territory, which is very famous.In addition, the local salmon fishing industry is also very large, attracting some investors to set up factories for production.The existence of these factories has attracted a large number of bitter Tunguskas to settle here, doing jobs such as cleaning and scraping scales, washing and pickling, etc. The wages do not need to be high, but these Tunguskas are very satisfied. It can be described as a win-win situation.

Salted salmon are sealed in wooden barrels according to the tradition of the east coast. Each barrel contains 500-1000 salmon, which are very popular in the forest areas in the north or grasslands in the south.Even the government agencies or military departments in the outer Northeast purchase a large amount of military supplies every year, because the output of the state-owned fishery company is only so much, and most of them are taken away by Denglai. annoying.

The four ships had a deep draft. After loading the cargo and starting the boat, Chen Ke was not too dirty. He sat on a gunpowder barrel and looked at the surrounding dark green mountains and forests, feeling very happy.If there is no accident, he may be transferred back to China this year to serve as the Central Executive Committee of the next government.This is almost a certainty, because there are only a few people who are eligible to be elected, and it is almost an equal election, just a formality.In today's East China Republic, the emphasis on the overseas resumes of officials has reached a "perverted" level, that is, those who do not serve as high-level officials in overseas colonies are basically less likely to enter the Central Executive Committee.It is basically impossible to become the chairman of the executive committee without experience in overseas colonies!

A group of three officials like Chen Ke, Liu Jianguo, and Ma Wenqiang, who served as the chief officials of the San Francisco in the Far East, basically had a smooth journey after returning, and they were directly reserved for national leaders.Therefore, on the way to Vladivostok, Chen Ke was still in a good mood. He had stayed in this cold and harsh outer northeast for long enough, and it was time to change to a new stage to show his ability.Is it the central executive committee in charge of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and agricultural finance?Sounds like a great position, and he likes it.

The four ships went up all the way, moving fast.At the beginning, there was an army cavalry team that went south with them on the shore (going south to patrol the various ministries, clearing up the horse bandits, and showing the natives their prestige by the way), but after only one day, those cavalry could not keep up with the four risky ships. The little steamer that was heading south suddenly with black smoke.Ships that can sail non-stop day and night are indeed too advantageous in the sparsely populated Manchuria area. This logistics transportation capacity is absolutely leveraged.

After sailing up for a certain distance, the ship stopped at an unloading point.Going forward from here, because the waterway has not been cleared, it is not suitable for the small steamer to go any further, and can only go on a raft or a small wooden boat.After thinking for a while, Chen Ke signed and borrowed more than a dozen horses here, and together with his entourage, headed southward like lightning.

This area has been cleaned several times.Along the way, I saw many neatly arranged villages, all of which were settled Han people or Sinicized Tunguskas. Of course, there were also a few Korean and Japanese immigrants. They were also settled farming peoples, but overall the number was small.

Outside the villages and farmlands, there are lush green grasslands.There are a large herd of sheep walking on the grassland, which looks like moving white clouds from a distance. It should be the Daur people who still retain quite nomadic customs, and there may be some migrated Mongolians or Han Chinese who are grazing. Chen Ke is not very sure, because in this area where various cultures communicate and collide with each other, various ethnic groups live together, so it is difficult to distinguish clearly.

"It's such a quiet and peaceful life." While riding a horse, Chen Ke sighed with emotion: "In such a vast land in the outer northeast, there have been a large number of nomadic, fishing and hunting peoples living since ancient times, and there are constant disputes and fights between them. But in our east After the people from An’an ruled here, they brought great order to them, allowing them to thrive. The Ningbo people who immigrated from the south where there were many people and little land brought advanced agricultural technology, With business technology and urgently needed funds, the seeds of change are already sprouting. When the power accumulates to a certain level, amazing power will sprout. Unfortunately, it may take decades or even hundreds of years. I can't see this day Now, we can only wait for the latecomers."

Speaking of the current outer northeast, the main input of foreign population is still the narrow and densely populated Ningshao area.Although the industry and commerce in these places are developed and they have absorbed a lot of employed people, they still cannot support the increasingly explosive population. As a last resort, they began to export to the Northeast, becoming the most important ethnic group in the Northeast.

The arrival of these people has greatly enriched the population of Manchuria and the outer Northeast, and brought a breath of civilization and the capital and technology needed for development to the local area. I don’t know how much trouble the local government has saved.You know, how many generations will it take for them to naturalize natives and open schools like that?The arrival of immigrants from Ningshao has made many local villages and towns suitable for farming have a higher level of civilization overnight. Even those natives have learned many new agricultural production technologies under the leadership of their immigrant neighbors. Productivity has been greatly improved.

Chen Ke has been in charge of Heishui these years, spending tens of thousands of yuan every year to advertise in the south, attracting penniless young people to Manchuria and the outer Northeast, and reaping huge benefits.He wondered if he could go to the Qing state-controlled area to do this kind of "recruitment" next time.Anyway, the two countries are now at peace, and it doesn’t cost much to try it. I believe that the land of Manchuria is still somewhat attractive to those proletarians, but the local government may not agree with it, and more work needs to be done.

On June 1685, 6, after visiting several villages and towns on the road, Chen Ke and his party finally arrived safely at the port of Vladivostok.It was at this time that two ships from the Kingdom of Korea had just dropped anchor. They brought the latest request from North Korea, requesting to import a batch of the latest machinery and equipment.

(End of this chapter)