My life skills in Daming Liver

Zhang Lian was born in the peasant army, and he hated these clans in Fujian and Guangzhou very much.

If these powerful clans hadn't controlled the place, they wouldn't have forced him to become a bandit.

Many generals in Zhang Lian's peasant army were also forced by those powerful clansmen.

Therefore, Zhang Lian was naturally disgusted with these Nanyang Chinese who still established some kind of clan in Nanyang.

Before coming to Nanyang, Su Ze also informed Zhang Lian.

Nanyang is different from the mainland. At least in this generation, the number of Chinese in Nanyang is unlikely to exceed that of the local natives.

It may even be impossible to surpass the local Malay natives for a long time.

Therefore, the biggest problem in Manila is not the European colonists, but the problem of the local Chinese and natives.

This is different from the problem of Han barbarians in Annan or Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou.

In fact, many of the Yao people in Guangxi have become Chinese.

Just like the chieftains like Danyun, they all speak Chinese and know Chinese characters, and the people they trade with are also Chinese.

The chieftains in the southwest were basically all canonized by the Ming court, and now they are relatively calm and respectful to the southeast.

The Yao Rebellion in Tengxia was caused on the one hand by careerists who wanted to separate the region, and on the other hand it was caused by some officials oppressing the people. This was not a national conflict, but a political conflict.

Moreover, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, and even the Annan region are bordering the Central Plains. Immigration was not a difficult thing to accept in the past, and the number of Han people in the area has also been steadily increasing.

Nanyang is different.

The climate, style and language of Nanyang are completely different from those of the Central Plains, and the culture is also very different.

Some of these second-generation Nanyang Chinese cannot even speak Chinese well.

And except for some people in coastal areas, it is impossible for Han people in inland areas to immigrate to Southeast Asia.

The Nanyang natives are also completely different from the southwestern barbarians. These natives have their own writing and language, as well as their own religion and mythology. They are also completely different from the Central Plains people.

This makes the conflict between Chinese and natives the biggest problem in Southeast Asia.

Therefore, Su Ze explained to Zhang Lian that the idea of ​​governing Nanyang should be completely different from that of southwest China.

After arriving in Manila, Zhang Lian felt that the Governor was really too wise.

Sure enough, after the Southeast captured Manila, these Chinese families suddenly became local tycoons and began to oppress the natives.

If they are allowed to continue like this, the entire Southeast Asia will be at war in a few years.

Moreover, the entire Nanyang Luzon is completely different from the Central Plains.

There are many islands in Luzon. According to the charts verified by southeastern navigators, the span of the entire Luzon region is even larger than that of the Central Plains from south to north.

It is impossible to establish a unified political power like the Central Plains with islands scattered all over the country.

Even if the tropical rainforest on the island is dense, once the natives escape into the rainforest, it will be difficult to organize an army to clear it out.

To put it bluntly, Nanyang cannot establish a strict rule like the Central Plains.

If these natives went into the jungle to fight guerrillas at the Governor's Palace in Manila, the investment would be simply unacceptable.

After Zhang Lian found out what these Nanyang families were doing in Manila, he was naturally rude.

He is not a scholar, so he naturally doesn't have any psychological pressure when he kills people.

After Zhang Lian took office as the governor, he first asked the sailors to "invite" several major families in Nanyang to the governor's mansion.

When they first saw Zhang Lian arresting people, these Nanyang Chinese families thought that Zhang Lian was taking office as a new official and wanted to defeat local powerful people.

They even thought that Zhang Lian was here to blackmail him, and as long as they gave him a gift, the new Nanyang Governor would definitely let them go.

Some well-informed people knew Zhang Lian's background and felt that this bumpkin was just here to make money.

It is normal for them to be confident. They naturally believed that without their help, Zhang Lian, the governor of Nanyang, would not be able to control Manila.

So after receiving Zhang Lian's invitation to the banquet, these family patriarchs happily attended the banquet. They thought that Zhang Lian was bargaining with them.

Who knew that on the night of the banquet, Zhang Lian was not polite to these families at all. He directly asked the sailors to detain all the members of the big families who attended the banquet, and then personally led people to search these families.

Corruption, indiscriminate killing of innocent people, forming cliques for personal gain, and smuggling arms were all proven. Zhang Lian found out irrefutable evidence of capital crimes for all the top ten families in Nanyang.

Next, Zhang Lian set up a public stage in front of the Governor's Palace in Manila to try these family members.

During this period, Zhang Lian opened the city gates and hired Malay translators to inform the whole city of the crimes of these people in Malay. He also ordered people to clear out the native lands occupied by these Chinese families.

Immediately afterwards, a total of ninety-seven people were pronounced guilty, including the top ten family patriarchs and core family members, as well as thugs and private soldiers of these families, as well as some officials who worked as collaborators.

The heads of these people were hung on the walls of Manila. Now the Malays who had fled into the mountains and forests because of the oppression of the local Chinese returned to Manila with joy.

Zhang Lian then issued a decree. First, all families must divide their property and live separately. Large families must divide their property and distribute it according to the small families within the family.

Real estate such as land and plantations are not allowed to be held by families or jointly and must be divided.

In industries such as family workshops and ships, the shares held by those who were beheaded were auctioned. Major families and Malay natives could buy shares, and outside businessmen could also buy them.

The children of the ten major families who committed the crime are banned from entering the various departments of the Governor of Manila for five years. After five years, it will be decided whether to open the ban based on the situation.

From now on, all official documents in the Governor's Mansion in Manila must be written in Chinese and Malay, and Chinese officials and Malay officials will be appointed in many positions.

Zhang Lian's series of actions quickly won the support of the local natives.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Lian issued restrictions on the Malays.

Malays in Nanyang can only be third-level officials at most.

If you want to continue to become a higher-level official or become an official, you must go to an official academy in the southeast to study and obtain graduation qualifications before you can be promoted.

And Zhang Lian generously announced that the Manila Governor's Office would give one hundred government-sponsored places to study in the southeast this time, but only Nanyang natives who could write a thousand Chinese characters could sign up.

Naturally, the quotas for public recruitment this time are regardless of race. Both Malays and Chinese can sign up. The results will be announced and posted in the Government House after three months.

Zhang Lian also opened a Chinese school in Manila and set up a Nanyang Guard to recruit local natives who could speak Chinese.

With Zhang Lian's blows, these Chinese tycoons were completely defeated. The officials who followed Zhang Lian to Manila were fully qualified for all the jobs in Manila. Zhang Lian did not need local tycoons to control Manila. .

The ten largest families in the local area were all beheaded by Zhang Lian, and the remaining families also knew that dividing the property was Zhang Lian's biggest killer move.

How could these Chinese who traveled to Southeast Asia not know the power of unity? They relied on their clans to survive in Southeast Asia.

But things are different now.

The advantage of a clan is naturally that it can concentrate its strength to face external threats, and it can also concentrate its financial and material resources to do things. It is much more powerful than a bunch of scattered natives.

But the disadvantage of the clan is that there is another exploitative clan under the government.

The clan is also divided into big houses and small houses, as well as direct descendants and concubine descendants.

The clan in Nanyang is a group that is forcibly twisted by the harsh patriarchal system.

The conflicts within this group are also not small. It is not uncommon in Nanyang for the direct descendants of the eldest family to eat meat and the descendants of the collateral descendants to starve to death.

The direct descendants of these big families control most of the family's property, and their people occupy important positions.

The status of those marginalized tribesmen is no better than that of the Malay natives.

For those descendants of the Nanyang family who are direct descendants of the eldest family, they are naturally unwilling to divide the property, because the family property is in their hands.

But it's different for the children of the collateral line. If the real estate is real estate, everyone can share it equally according to the small family.

You can also get shares in the family's properties, and you can get buyout compensation even if you don't get shares.

And all he gets is his own property, and he no longer has to look up to those direct descendants.

The reasons for the family elders to intimidate them in the past no longer exist. Now Manila is the Manila of the southeast. With the southeast fleet at sea and the southeast governor's palace guard, the Malay natives and Westerners can no longer oppress the Nanyang Chinese.

So what's the point of maintaining this kind of clan?

Since the promulgation of the property division order, Zhang Lian established a property court in the Governor's Mansion to handle lawsuits over the division of family property.

Suddenly, a large number of local Chinese came to the court to sue their clans, demanding that the property be divided according to the "Property Division Order".

Zhang Lian naturally followed the example of good deeds and struck hard at the upper echelons of the family who hid their property or refused to share their property, and imprisoned many of them.

At this point, everyone knows that the former leader of the peasant army and current governor of Nanyang has terrible methods.

However, at this time, Zhang Lian was no longer willing to manage the financial affairs of these weak-minded Nanyang family tycoons.

He was currently in a plantation, looking at the tree species in the land.