Wanli 1592

Chapter 386 Myanmar is developing like a raging fire
These days, Narishon is a little troubled.

It’s not that there are too many troubles, which are gone now. After all, the root cause of the troubles is gone, but there are still many small troubles. In addition to some problems within the country, there is also the reconstruction of Phitsanulok Mansion. Apart from the problem, Narexuan's biggest worry comes from the fact that the Han courtiers and soldiers and the Han people under his command keep leaving him.

The reason is the establishment of Burma Town and the establishment of Xiao Ruxun's absolute control over Burma Town. After that, Xiao Ruxun issued an announcement to the Han immigrants in various small countries throughout Southeast Asia, hoping that they could return to the embrace of China and join the poor and the white In Burma Town, which has no land, he will grant everyone land with an amount several times higher than that of the Central Plains according to the population and household registration, in exchange for everyone's return.

Since the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, there have been some people who are unwilling to be subjugated people under the iron heels of foreign races to go to Nanyang to survive. During the entire Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, there were many such things. In the early Ming Dynasty, such things were almost However, with the intense land annexation and the prosperity of commercial activities in the late Ming Dynasty, a large number of merchants who were originally landless farmers began to go to Nanyang and settle in Nanyang. Most of these people were from coastal provinces.

It should be said that if they hadn't lost their land and had nowhere to go, they would not be willing to leave their hometown to go to a foreign country thousands of miles away, but they had no choice but to go to a foreign country because of their livelihood. Most of them are still working in sweatshops, earning meager salaries to get by, and their lives are quite poor. These people account for the majority of overseas Chinese. What they look forward to may still be to cultivate the fields in their hometown and work at sunrise Life at sunset.

It’s just that their hometown no longer has their land, and they cannot survive without land. This is a portrayal of the tragic fate of Chinese farmers. In order to survive, they can only engage in commerce and handicrafts. The probability of making a fortune overseas is somewhat higher than the probability of making a fortune at home. Some.

However, this is not their wish. It is their expectation that they can return to China to live a comfortable and prosperous life in the past when they have a strong rural complex.

And Xiao Ruxun's announcement brought them hope.

While sending people to welcome the refugees from all over the world, Xiao Ruxun also sent ships to various small countries in Southeast Asia where Chinese lived to issue a call to the Ming Dynasty, calling on the Chinese to settle down in Burma Town, announcing that Burma has belonged to China and China, and needs to be developed and built. As long as everyone passes, they can get the land.

This is a very attractive condition, especially for most Chinese who are doing hard work overseas.

Although the small country is dissatisfied... nonsense, of course it is dissatisfied. Although the number of these Chinese is not large, they can be regarded as a strong labor force. They need these Chinese to help them work because of the shortage of population, let alone some wealthy Chinese businessmen. Provide them with more taxes and bring more advanced productivity. Now you have called them away with a piece of paper. What should we do?
However, Xiao Ruxun didn't care about these things. At the stalls that had just destroyed and occupied Myanmar, no one dared to show their teeth to Daming who was in the limelight. Although he was dissatisfied, he could only knock out his teeth and swallow blood in his stomach. With a smile on his face, he watched as the Chinese followed the Ming soldiers away one by one.

Naturally, not everyone left. Some people didn't believe it, and the Ming army didn't explain it. They took away those who believed, and those who didn't want to stay and continue to work hard.

Compared with these coolies, rich Chinese businessmen have their own conditions and channels to understand the actual situation in the real Myanmar town. Although Xiao Ruxun also welcomes them to return to the Chinese territory to settle, they undoubtedly have more thinking and practical problems.

This kind of problem is more obvious in Siam, which has become the source of Narishon's troubles.

Narexuan is the king who employs the most Chinese among the kings in Southeast Asia. From officials to army generals to underground people, there are basically Han people. Han courtiers are even an indispensable part of his civil servant system.

They helped Narexuan establish the administrative foundation of Siam, so Narexuan needs them very much, but after all, Narexuan is not the king of Han people, but the king of Yidi. The Chinese who left their homes are willing to follow him for survival, but more In a sense, they are still willing to follow Daming himself.

After the establishment of the Burma Town, Xiao Ruxun lived in Burma, and almost a separatist regime was established. Xiao Ruxun's announcement also arrived in Siam. Because the distance was very close, the Siamese Chinese had no doubts, so the turbulent immigration wave began.

The Han courtiers and Han soldiers were taken care of by Narexuan, and some of them cared for his kindness and were reluctant to leave him. Only about 1000% of them chose to leave, but the ordinary Han peasants and artisans basically all left. For a while, Of the tens of thousands of Chinese in Siam, only more than [-] remained with Narexuan.

Most of them went directly to Myanmar, and their idea was very simple. Anyway, they wanted to go and see. If Myanmar Town really had fields and a good life, as Xiao Ruxun said, then we would stay. If it is not good to recognize the ancestors and return to the clan, just escape and come back.

But when they arrived in Burma Town, they were allocated land that was several times that of China's mainland according to their household registration and population, and after they got the title deed, no one ever mentioned going back.

In the minds of Chinese people in this era, land is always the most important foundation for a person, more important than money.

After the first batch of crab-eating people in Siam were satisfied, the news spread quickly. Not only Siam, but Han people from other small countries were also ready to move, and they began to migrate to Burma Town with their families. The news Somehow, it spread to border provinces such as Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangdong, and Guangxi. In these places, some people who suffered from taxation and oppression of the wealthy clan secretly dragged their families and migrated to Myanmar town.

Of course, Xiao Ruxun’s plan to recall immigrants did not go smoothly. In Luzon, that is, the Philippines, encountered obstacles from the Spanish colonial authorities. The people intervened forcefully, thinking that Da Ming had violated their territorial rights by entering their territory without permission, and they demanded that Ming soldiers and ships leave immediately.

Of course, the officers of the Ming army would not admit it, ignored it, and continued to read the edict. After the Philippine Governor’s Office in Spain learned of Daming’s powerful combat power at that time, they were afraid of Ming. The imperial edict, but only dared to stare at the side, did not dare to move, did not dare to stop.

Xiao Ruxun's call received great support and support from the local Chinese who were mining and doing coolies. Thousands of Chinese who were doing coolies under the oppression of the Spaniards responded to the call and were willing to follow the Ming ship to Luzon. According to Xiao Ruxun's The requirement is to take away the single men first, and then the young and strong men with families. After more than 1000 people are stuffed into the three sea boats, they will not be able to fit them, so they can only wait for the next batch.

After going back and forth three times like this, the Philippine Governor's Mansion couldn't sit still.

The Spaniards are different from other small countries in Southeast Asia. They have no vassal relationship with Ming Dynasty, or even have no trade relations. Instead, they are on guard against each other and hostile to each other. There are tens of thousands of Chinese immigrants in Luzon, and the number is very large. For the Spaniards It is a very important labor resource. These Chinese are very hardworking, and there are quite a few who can do business. They bring a lot of tax to the Spanish authorities every year. They welcome the Chinese to settle.

The Spaniards also had a chapter on the conquest of China in their conquest plan at the time, which believed that China was the only civilized country other than them, and would become "a high-quality subject of the empire", so they should be treated differently, not like other indigenous people Treat the Chinese.

But the so-called differentiated treatment is just a little bit better, and there is no essential difference. Those who really get differentiated treatment are the rich and big businessmen, and ordinary people cannot be treated differently.

That's why the rich and powerful took a wait-and-see attitude towards Xiao Ruxun's announcement, unlike ordinary people who were doing coolies.

They also cooperated with the Spanish colonial authorities to move some Chinese immigrants to other islands to prevent the Ming army from finding them. If the Ming army could not find them, there was nothing they could do. The Spaniards did not dare to use force against the Ming army, but the Tibetans would still do it. Yes, the Ming army ships couldn’t find the Han people. Although they knew that the Spaniards were playing tricks, Xiao Ruxun also warned them that now is not the time for a showdown with the Spaniards, so don’t over-provoke them. Therefore, the Ming army ships could only turn to other places. .

In fact, it really doesn't matter, Xiao Ruxun doesn't care whether these big businessmen come or not, what he cares about is these hardworking ordinary people.

The imperial court recalled the troops from other places, but Xiao Ruxun felt a little more relaxed, because in this way, he could eliminate the interference of the local system on his future army, start from scratch, recruit and train a team that is completely his own, and he is deeply impressed. A mighty army of his mark.

The court does not give money?It doesn't matter, Xiao Ruxun has already made preparations. The large amount of wealth obtained by his father in the capital for several years, and the large amount of wealth he himself obtained in the capital for a few months, was exchanged for bank notes and antiques before Xiao Wenkui retired and returned to his hometown. , Calligraphy and painting, jade, jewelry, land, and houses were all exchanged for bank notes, and they were secretly stored as Yang Caiyun and Yang Zhaonan went to Nanjing.

Then, after Xiao Ruxun obtained the qualification of Shizhen Burma, under the arrangements of Yang Zhao, Yang Caiyun and Xiao Ruzhi, and under the protection of Ye Mengxiong, Xiao Ruxun sent soldiers from the personal guard to sneak back to the local area secretly, and personally captured Wang Hui. As the commander-in-chief, he divided this huge amount of banknotes into several batches, and exchanged large sums of silver in bank accounts in Zhejiang, Nanzhili, Fujian and other places, and bought them one by one by sea ships. The grain seeds and necessary equipment were transported back to Myanmar together.

Xiao Ruxun had already started the plan for the comprehensive development of Myanmar. At the same time, he also felt a little sad. The money obtained by a general from embezzlement and the gifts he gave each other were worth millions of taels of silver. Fei, the annual financial revenue of the imperial court is only three or four million taels of silver, which is actually equal to the family property of a corrupt official. Where did all the money of Ming Dynasty go?

Right here.

The reason for sending Wang Hui back to the mainland is not only to get money, but also to get tea and recruit tea farmers and silkworm farmers. Xiao Ruxun intends to introduce tea in Burma. Tea, silk and porcelain are ancient China's inability to face the West China's three best-selling products, based on these three things, China completed a comprehensive trade suppression of the West in the hundreds of years before the Opium War. It was not until after the Industrial Revolution that China's handicraft industry was defeated by Western machines.

But at this moment, these things are still unsolvable. If Xiao Ruxun can complete the reproduction of tea, silk and porcelain in Myanmar, then, naturally, Myanmar can be built into a real east-west trade center, which can attract a large number of Western businessmen to Myanmar. Come to consume. If they come, they can also bring western products. Xiao Ruxun can attract businessmen from Southeast Asian countries, even wealthy businessmen from Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, and Guangdong, to do business in Myanmar.

By setting up several port cities in Myanmar, you can collect commercial taxes. Xiao Ruxun can completely control the commercial taxes that have always been unsolvable in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty in Myanmar. No one can interfere with his commercial taxes. The gentlemen thought that Myanmar was a mess, with nothing to squeeze out, and left the power to make rules to Xiao Ruxun, but when they realized the value of Myanmar, Xiao Ruxun had managed the place like an iron barrel, impenetrable for needles Water can't get in.

Xiao Ruxun knew that Shan State in the north of Myanmar was suitable for growing tea, so he hoped to recruit tea farmers in the interior to introduce tea trees to this area. In addition, he also recruited people who could raise silkworms to introduce mulberry trees. Myanmar’s natural conditions are very good, suitable for the cultivation and cultivation of mulberry trees. For silkworm breeding, if a group of people who can raise silkworms and grow mulberries can be recruited in places like Fujian, silk can also be developed in a few years, and Xiao Ruxun can produce silk independently.

Silk and tea are easy to make. With the cooperation of Ye Mengxiong, it is not difficult to make these, but porcelain is a bit troublesome. The quality of folk kiln porcelain cannot be compared with official kiln porcelain. It is very difficult for Xiao Ruxun to get involved in exporting to foreign countries to earn foreign exchange.

Of course, it is not difficult to produce some civilian porcelain, and there is a market, but if you want to produce high-end art porcelain, you have to hire veteran technicians from official kilns, which is considered to be poaching the corner of the royal family, Xiao Ruxun thought about it , or not, so as not to irritate those old masters, just make civilian porcelain, not art.

At the same time, Xiao Ruxun secretly played talent immigration in Zhejiang, Fujian and other places. With high income and high treatment, he attracted those folk craftsmen to settle in Myanmar. Xiao Ruxun will send someone to contact him and attract him to go to Burma.

Myanmar is developing in full swing.

(End of this chapter)