The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 713

Baojia's acceptance of captives from the occupying power as labor was certainly not free. The "Nanming" government did things based on the standard of whoever benefits and who pays.

The family receiving a strong laboring man must pay the government five silver coins per year, and three silver coins per year for women.

Today, Cochin Province is the main food producing area. Although the three-cropping rice fields can get better labor remuneration, the considerable labor required makes Cochin farmers feel unable to do what they want.

Without him, there are too many acres and not enough labor.

Especially during busy farming seasons, three silver coins a month would not be able to hire helpers, and the mutual assistance model between Baojia could not meet the needs of more and more farmers in their hands.

Pay five silver coins and you can get a strong laborer to use for a year, as long as you don't abuse them to feed and clothe them.

The farmers did their calculations, and it seemed that they could obtain a surplus value of no less than ten silver coins a year by using these people.

Where there is knowledge, there is insight, and if there is force, there is courage. Of course, there is a backer if there is an organization. Farmers in Cochin have signed up to hire serfs, and some families have hired more than one serf.

The "Nanming" government specially issued a temporary law to clarify the management of slaves. No one will be a slave for life, and the longest period of 15 years will become a free citizen.

The children born to the captives during their slavery will also receive free education. The children are all free citizens, and they learn Chinese to write Chinese characters and are included in the Han nationality.

Servants have the provisional law of "Minimum Living Standards Management Regulations" to protect their rights and interests to obtain food and clothing through labor. They have the right to appeal, and the grassroots officials at the head of the pavilion come to arbitrate, and they can appeal level by level if they are dissatisfied.

Employers who abuse their slaves will lose the opportunity to get another slave, and the slaves at home will also be redistributed by Lijia, which means that such cheap and cost-effective labor will no longer be available to them.

The slaves actively learn Chinese during the labor process, and those who give praise from the master can appropriately reduce the period of reformation as slaves. The specific number of years of slavery varies from person to person, anyway, the maximum is 15 years.

Giving hope to everyone is the consistent policy of the "Nanming" government. Officials at all levels will communicate policies and regulations to slaves and employers, clarifying the rights and obligations of the general public, including slaves.

The media of the "Nanming" system has been formed, and the newspaper, a propaganda tool, will of course become the mouthpiece of the government.

Newspapers such as Huaxia Daily, Huaxia Fortune Daily, Jiaozhi Evening News, and South China Evening News have entered the households of ordinary people. It has long been a routine to organize grassroots farmers to come to night schools to read newspapers and study at the grassroots level in Bao, Jia, and Li.

It is unique in this era that ordinary people in Shengdou can understand the major affairs of the country. It is not a matter of course that the people of "Nanming" become the pioneers of the times.

Another month and a half passed, and the "Nanming" army had completely occupied the entire Malay Peninsula.

According to preliminary statistics, there are more than 300 sultanates, large and small, with a total population of about [-] million. It is also because of years of continuous war that the ratio of men to women is seriously imbalanced, which is better than that of Dai Viet, about [-] to [-].

More than one million people between the ages of 13 and 40 were sent to "Nanming" to be sinicized in continuous labor. The maximum number of people accepted by Jiaozhi reached more than 60. With these people working hard to produce food, the farmland increased by at least four 500 million mu.

This time the invasion of the Malay Peninsula certainly does not need to subsidize military expenses, because the value of the gold and silver treasures looted has exceeded 3000 million silver coins, and the value of real estate, mines, land, etc. is immeasurable.

Due to the mature territorial digestion and Sinicization of captives, more than one million captives will directly contribute at least 400 million silver coins to the "Nanming" government every year, and the total value created by their hard work should exceed 500 million silver coins.

The soldiers and civilians of the "Nanming" who took part in the occupation of new territories would of course gain the benefits of expansion and colonization, and the farmers who stayed in the rear would also get cheap labor and feel the benefits of a strong motherland.

In the Malay Peninsula with a population of 300 million, there are 50 Han descendants plus their immediate family members. Why are there so many Han descendants?
Because as long as there is one Han descendant in the family, the whole family members are regarded as Han Chinese, regardless of whether they know Chinese or Chinese characters, just learn it slowly in the future.

After the promulgation of this decree, everyone of Han descent was very excited, because as soon as the army of the motherland arrived, all Han descendants were given special privileges.

Han people do not need to be captives to be reformed through labor, but to take over the land under the name of the sultan and lead some of the indigenous people left behind to continue farming.

How can they not like it from living in a foreign country and being bullied to being the master here?
In the eyes of the natives of Southeast Asia, the Han people are pagans, they can create wealth and endure being marginalized.Of course, the natives will unite from time to time to slaughter the Han people and seize the fruits of the Han people's labor.

From now on, it will never happen again. The Han nationality will soon become the main ethnic group in this land, and the Han people will manage this place into a paradise of kingship.

A large number of Han people have immigrated here one after another, and the organizational structure of the Baojia Joint Defense will be formed soon. The Han people who have weapons and train regularly will no longer be bullied by anyone.

The method of occupying the Malay Peninsula is the same as the invasion of Dai Viet and the Kingdom of Aceh. Finally, it is necessary to ensure that the proportion of the population of Han people reaches [-]%.

Among the [-]% of the Han people, [-]% to [-]% are not so pure and not important at all. As long as the motherland is strong, the attitude of "being Han people" who use expedient measures will change into long-term solutions. After one or two generations, it will be difficult to distinguish each other.

This has been verified by history. The Han nationality is inclusive. After thousands of years, too many ethnic groups have integrated into it to develop into the current scale. Even a part of the Xiongnu has been completely sinicized.

Huang Sheng will also do it deliberately, strengthen education, unify clothing, hair accessories and etiquette, everyone speaks Chinese, writes Chinese characters and reads the poems and essays left by China for 5000 years.

Breaking up the group of foreign nationalities into Baojia made it difficult for them to obtain the status of free citizens without changing themselves, and their living conditions were far worse than those of their neighbors.

Give preferential treatment to Sinicization activists to become free citizens and Han people regardless of each other, so that their living conditions will flourish, and they will be widely publicized as models.

The news that the entire Malay Peninsula was captured by the "Nanming" kingdom spread in the Indochina Peninsula. The king of Guangnan remained calm, the king of the Lancang Kingdom was trembling, the emperor of the Ayutthaya Dynasty was furious, and the king of the Toungoo Dynasty immediately realized that he would go south to defend the land , to prevent the invasion of "Nanming".

At the end of April in the 12th year of Chongzhen, 18 Chen soldiers of the Toungoo Dynasty confronted the "Nanming" army fifty miles north of the southern port of Tawei. year area.

The first fierce battle involving hundreds of thousands of troops to invade the Malay Peninsula fifty miles south of Ratchaburi Province is about to kick off.

(End of this chapter)