Wanli 1592

Chapter 387 The Storm from the North

Xiao Ruxun's place is developing like a raging fire, but Narisuan's place is frowning.

"Your Majesty, another 120 farmers and 57 soldiers left for Burma yesterday."

Standing in front of him, Lin Yuanshan handed him a piece of statistics that he didn't want to see.

"Going away again?"

Narexuan asked a little disappointed.

"Well, let's go again."

Lin Yuanshan replied with certainty: "The granting of land by the Marquis of Zhennan is true. All the people in the past, who had at least one young and strong man in their families, got enough fertile land. Some villages have been established. Lead troops to build houses and cities before the population arrived, and now a large settlement has formed around Bagu City, at least ten thousand households are settling down, Zhennanhou did not lie."

Narishon sighed again.

"If I knew Zhennanhou didn't plan to go back, why would I put in so much effort? I thought I could divide at least half of the land, but I only got so many places..."

After Xiao Ruxun pacified Burma, Narexuan, as the king of the vassal state with the most contribution, received official titles, titles and in-kind rewards. Xiao Ruxun even bestowed him with the territory in the narrow strip south of Mawlamyine. The land was accepted by Da Ming with a smile, without digging out at all, and then Xiao Ruxun's order also poached tens of thousands of Chinese from Siam in one go.

A lot of officials left to go to Zhennanhou's Mansion, but Narisuan couldn't stay there no matter what.

"Is it because this king doesn't treat them well enough? Myanmar is poor and white, and the war has just been quelled. How can it be comfortable here?"

Narishon asked incomprehensibly.

"The situation in the old country is hard to let go. In the past, I dared not go back. Now that I can go back, most people are still willing to go back, let alone the land grant, and there are no court officials to control it. Many people are willing to go there. unavoidable thing."

Lin Yuanshan explained briefly.

Narisuan glanced at Lin Yuanshan: "Why don't you go?"

Lin Yuanshan bowed deeply, and said: "Your Majesty's kindness to this old minister is as great as a mountain. The old minister's family has been honored by His Majesty's life, and there is absolutely no reason to leave. In this lifetime, this old minister will never leave His Majesty."

Narisuan felt a little warm in his heart, looked at Lin Yuanshan, sighed, and said with a wry smile: "I should have known that I couldn't keep them, Da Ming is too powerful, with Da Ming around, how could they take the initiative to join me? But , if the land of Burma develops in the future, cooperation with Siam will be indispensable, Lin Qing, then I will ask you to contact Xiaohou more often to earn a share of benefits for our Siamese country."

Lin Yuanshan smiled and said, "Old minister obeys!"

This kind of situation happened in various small countries in Southeast Asia. Unlike Siam, these small countries are quite cautious about whether to use Chinese as officials. The Chinese are always outsiders and have no sense of belonging. Pack your luggage, drag your family and board the Ming army warship, and go to the new territory of your country with the warship to live a new life.

At this time, the small countries realized the importance of these Chinese immigrants. No one did those important jobs, and the important technology was not provided. The population decreased a lot, and the tax revenue plummeted. They voluntarily left these small countries due to shrinkage. For a while, all the small countries in Southeast Asia were facing economic crisis and political instability.

Nari Xuanxiong's willingness to use Chinese to join the country's leadership has also gained the loyalty of a group of Chinese, so Siam is the only vassal state that has not been hollowed out of Chinese immigrants. As for the Philippines, it has been played by the Spanish authorities for a while. The method is that the Ming army will not trouble them for the time being. After a wave of immigration, along with the imminent arrival of domestic refugees, Xiao Ruxun recalled all the warships and soldiers, and began to prepare for the next heavy work.

According to approximate statistics, the number of internal refugees arriving in Myanmar is about 3, and this is only a part, and the boats cannot bring them all back. Soon, another group of refugees will arrive, and the number of refugees in this group is also 3. In other words, this first wave of immigration brought about [-] Han people to Myanmar. For Myanmar, which is poor and white and has no Han people, it is really a big improvement.

However, compared to any prefecture or county in the country, Burma Town, which covers an area about two times the size of North Korea, has a population of only 10, which is extremely pitiful. According to Xiao Ruxun's guess, the current population of Daming has Breaking through [-] million, or even close to [-] million, those numbers on the surface are numbers after hiding a large number of households to avoid taxation. That is really a small town with thousands of families hidden.

Myanmar Town is different. The population on the surface is the actual population. Compared with the entire range of Myanmar Town, Xiao Ruxun is sure that more than 300 million people will settle here without being troubled by hunger, but now there are only There are a mere [-] Han people, and the number of Han people is less than one-twentieth of those Burmese aborigines who settled in the east of Assam, and even such a group of people can support themselves with only those lands.

After Xiao Ruxun introduces high-yielding crops such as corn and potatoes in Myanmar, with Myanmar's unique geographical conditions, more and more people can be supported.

Xiao Ruxun is trying his best to recruit land-lost farmers from the coast to settle in Myanmar to supplement the lack of population. With Bago City as the center, it gradually develops outwards, but the population growth is still very slow.

Of course, there is no need to worry about these for the time being, not to mention that most of these people are young and strong men, and they will have great potential for sustainable development in the future. Xiao Ruxun is very uneasy about the very old and backward infrastructure in Myanmar. Just enough for Xiao Ruxun to handle it, if the population grows explosively, there might be troubles.

The infrastructure is bad, very bad, not just bad, or even non-existent.

I won’t talk about what the city is like. The cultivated land is random, slash-and-burn, and there is a lot of abandoned land. The planning of residential areas is very unscientific. There are scattered here and there, and it is impossible to form effective population settlements. Radiation response, water conservancy facilities and public health facilities are even zero, no wonder there are floods at every turn.

Myanmar has a lot of rainfall, and there are many rivers and lakes with huge water storage capacity, so it is easy to cause floods. This is very similar to some places in Sichuan and the Yangtze River Basin. Chinese ancestors built a large number of water conservancy facilities to ensure that floods do not It will damage the country, and the Burmese have no such awareness at all!
The living conditions are too good, and the natural advantages are too great, which makes this group of people only know about militarism, and never know how to develop production.

So the first thing for the Han people who came to Myanmar is to pick up tools and work with the soldiers to build their own homes.

The construction of water conservancy and the establishment of basic public facilities have become a very important thing. Xiao Ruxun asked the army to dig mountains and dig stones to build water conservancy projects, and recruit relevant technical talents from the emigrated Han people. Discuss a feasible plan, build simple and necessary river embankments on the basis of the messy waterproof facilities messed up by the Burmese, and ensure the safety of the original Han settlements in the Bago area, and then talk about him.

Some facilities need to be purchased from China, or directly from Siam. The manpower is enough. The army plus the young and strong men who migrated, tens of thousands of people can still come together. It is not difficult to engage in engineering, but the difficulty lies in technology. There are few talents and insufficient tools. Most people have to borrow weapons from the army to open up wasteland and fell. It will take some time before the large amount of agricultural tools and equipment ordered from China can be delivered.

Among them, Ye Mengxiong also helped Xiao Ruxun to pack up some unnecessary things in the warehouse and sell them to Xiao Ruxun at a low price. Among them were some weapons and a large number of farm tools. He also helped Xiao Ruxun find some talents in water conservancy and helped Xiao Ruxun to construct Water conservancy also helped to find some doctors, some young doctors who like to wander around, packed them up and sent them to Myanmar. Of course, it was Xiao Ruxun's generous treatment that attracted them.

At any time, talent is the most important thing. If it were put into modern times, Xiao Ruxun would not be able to get anything, but thank God, the officials only care about the Four Books and Five Classics, and Jinshi who can read. They didn't care about it, the salary was low, and the status was also low. Once they heard that Xiao Ruxun gave them generous treatment, they could even be technical officials in Zhennanhou's Mansion, so they packed up their bags and took their family with them.

If there is no water conservancy in Myanmar, it will not be able to develop. Similarly, if there is no medical treatment, it will be fatal. Now that the rainy season in Myanmar has passed, the most basic water conservancy needs to be done before the next rainy season to ensure that there will be no floods. , but also to improve the most basic medical conditions, so that those people who are not acclimatized to the environment will get sick, and a large number of people will die of illness, and Xiao Ruxun will have nowhere to cry.

Now you don’t have to worry about eating and drinking water, and the number of people is not large. The rations of tens of thousands of people are uniformly arranged and responsible by the Huotou army in the army. Those who work are given three meals a day, those who are not working are given two meals a day, and those who are working are given one meal. Two meals a day, and those who don't work one meal a meal, all in all, just treat everyone well.

Xiao Ruxun did have food in his hands. The food he got from Siam, the food from various tribes, and the food exchanged with the treasures in Mangyingli, there was no shortage of food at all. According to the current temperature in Myanmar, in the near In the south, Xiao Ruxun, according to the opinions of a group of old farmers, has already begun to order a group of young and strong to plow the fields.

The temperature here is not below [-] degrees, the water is still abundant, and three crops a year are not a problem. The old farmers cried and said that they had never seen such a good place. If it was like this in their hometown, they would not use it here.

Xiao Ruxun asked a group of old farmers who had left their hometowns, and learned that they originally lived in Guanzhong, wandered to Shandong, and then went to Zhejiang, and came to Myanmar by boat. The grains are shriveled, the harvest is greatly reduced, and everyone is crying that God has no eyes, and God does not take care of them. As a result, they have no money to pay taxes, so they can only sell the last land to those landlords with treacherous and cunning faces. Some money fled.

In the 22nd year of Wanli, the northern region has begun to show signs of a major drop in temperature, and the grain production has been severely reduced.

The severe cold that cannot be felt in Myanmar is sweeping the north of Ming Dynasty. This is true for the Han people living in the south of the Great Wall, and it is even more so for the nomads living in the prairie further north. It is cold and abnormally cold. The water and grass are not abundant, the livestock can no longer support them, and they are getting thinner and fatter. If this continues, everyone will starve to death. What should I do?Steal his mother!

Rob who?

Chinese!

A new round of southward storm is brewing, and the elders living in the deep palace, neither the emperor nor the cabinet, have never paid attention to this terrible southward storm. Of course, they are used to it. , The frontier army spontaneously began to guard the border and increase its strength, because they knew that when the weather became cold, the nomadic barbarians would come south to plunder.

In the first battle, Xiao Ruxun beheaded more than 3000 barbarians and built a Jingguan outside the Great Wall. For two full years, no nomadic cavalry dared to cross that Jingguan to launch an attack on the Great Wall. The deterrence of Jingguan is continuously decreasing. In the foreseeable future, the nomads who are forced by the severe cold and whose lives are threatened will have to overcome their fear and go south again.

This is their fate, and it is also the fate of the Central Plains Dynasty. If the Central Plains Dynasty cannot completely kill these nomads, they will not be able to avoid the annual border wars. The same is true for the nomads. If the weather is not warm, they will not be able to avoid risking their lives. The fate of going south to attack the territory of the Han people.

Modern scientific research has proved that when the average temperature of the earth's surface drops by three degrees Celsius, the moisture condensed in the atmosphere will decrease by 20.00%, resulting in severe drought. A change in the average annual temperature of one degree Celsius can be reflected in the fluctuation of the northern boundary of agriculture by 200-300 Kilometers, that is to say, a temperature change of one degree Celsius will determine whether the land is suitable for farming within a width of [-] kilometers to [-] kilometers.

When the temperature is high, the northern border of the Han people's agriculture will expand to the north, and the power of the Han people will also expand to the north, and the people will be able to settle down. Naturally, the food production can be supplied to the army, and the military camps of the army can also meet the needs of a part of the army, and the temperature will drop. If the northern boundary of agriculture moves to the south, the land that cannot be cultivated for food is worthless and cannot be settled, and the population can only move to the south. The power of the Han people will shrink to the south, and the bottom line of the Han army will continue to shrink to the south. became a very difficult thing.

At the end of many dynasties, the territory continued to shrink to the south, not only the weakening of military power, but also the migration of the Han population to the south caused by the drop in temperature. There is no need to guard the worthless land, but the people of the Qin Dynasty established The Great Wall is a building in line with the climate of the Qin Dynasty, not necessarily suitable for the Ming Dynasty. At that time, it was warm, and the northern border of the Qin people's agriculture could expand to the Hetao area, but now, is it okay?

Xiao Ruxun raised his eyes and looked north - in the foreseeable future, there will be another round of storms from the north sweeping through the terrifying swords and guns, rushing towards the nine sides.

(End of this chapter)