New Shun 1730

Of course, the Kandy Dynasty certainly had opinions on this.

However, with the garrison and fleet surrounding them, their opinions were meaningless.

At most, the two sides discussed that the Gray Shirt Faction could not go to the mountainous areas, and the caste faction on the other side would no longer interfere in the affairs of the lowlands.

In private, they would secretly look for the British, and forget the lesson of driving away ginger and inviting peppers.

But the British now have no time to work hard in Ceylon, and they don’t want to provoke Dashun at all.

Dashun and France were already unclear, and now they are looking for trouble and provoking Dashun again. That’s really idle.

What Quan Zheshen saw was sinicization, or a narrow sense of sinicization to a certain extent.

The root of this narrow sense of sinicization is that there are about 400,000 to 500,000 Sinhalese people in the Dashun-controlled area, and about 200,000 Han people were squeezed in at once.

In a broader sense, sinicization is actually modernization and secularization.

That is what Liu Yu said, "general modification into nationality."

Secularization is the premise of modernization; breaking the caste system is modernization.

Sinicization in a narrow sense is a long process that requires education, population, economic advantages, etc.

Sinicization in a broad sense is the foundation of Sinicization in a narrow sense.

Because the world is moving forward, not backward, and we need to lay the foundation for the future modernized Han country, rather than retreating and letting a group of old ruling classes read scriptures.

As long as we can be a benchmark for modernization, then those universal things of modernization are national.

The reason why the Gray Shirts' religious reform was successful here is that Dashun itself is against the local ruling class, and the low-caste population here is both large and controls the economic foundation.

The more realistic and brutal reason is that no matter whether it is the Portuguese or the Dutch, they still need the high-caste group to provide them with food, labor, and service.

And for Dashun... the Celestial Empire has no shortage of people who can and are willing to farm.

The Celestial Empire does not need to rely on a group of high-caste Ceylonese people to farm. The level of farming in the Celestial Empire is much higher than that of these high-caste people.

Moreover, in such a place, some of Liu Yu's teachings made Liu Yu convinced that the complete annexation of Ceylon meant the awakening of Ceylonese nationalism; and direct division, or even religious conflicts such as the Gray Clothes Sect and the Caste Sect, is the basis for Dashun to occupy the southwest region permanently.

In fact, he was very happy to intensify the contradictions between the secular and caste factions.

Because the more the contradictions intensified, the more "traditional" the orthodox caste faction would be in order to prove its orthodoxy, and would never reform itself and relax caste restrictions.

Dashun did not want to grow tea in the mountains of Ceylon. Why go to the mountains if you don't want a good place?

Therefore, Dashun's policy was to keep the few high-caste villages as they were; and a large amount of land was distributed to low-caste people, and their castes were broken up and their generational occupation restrictions were abolished.

The only occupational restriction was that they were not allowed to serve in the military, nor did they need to serve in the military. Instead, they had to pay land taxes instead of serving in the military.

Dashun did not need local soldiers because there was no shortage of people.

Therefore, from the perspective of politics and regime, the southwestern region of Ceylon had actually been very successfully sinicized.

The government soldiers served in the military, and the state gave them land, and the government soldiers had the obligation to serve in the military.

The small farmers who were dispersed and had actually abolished caste restrictions paid taxes.

A large number of industrial and commercial practitioners filled the plantations and pearling boats in the form of hired workers rather than labor.

The village compiled household registration, and set up village heads and grain heads.

In addition to state-owned land, the land granted was redeemed by each family, and after redemption, they obtained land ownership, which could be bought, sold, traded, and allowed to be merged.

The governor's office would recruit agricultural population every year to carry out water conservancy construction, but it would be staggered during the busy farming season - because the land was relatively abundant and there was no serious polarization between the rich and the poor in rural areas, it was inappropriate to collect conscription money and hire people to work, and it could even be said to be a case of looking for a sword on a boat.

Dashun paper money was widely used in lowland areas.

All urban schools taught in Chinese.

The first decree implemented was to prohibit blood marriages between people with the same surname and legalize inter-caste marriages.

A strict system of certificates was implemented for monks, and no monks were allowed to become monks without the approval of the subordinate agencies of the Li government. The leaders of the monastic community were not allowed to inherit without the approval of the Li government reported by the governor's office.

After all, this was the jurisdiction of Dashun's Ceylon Governor's Office and the Ceylon Military Town.

It was not Dashun India Company or Dashun Ceylon Company.

Dashun's commercial capital had an economic advantage here.

However, they still did not have the political advantage corresponding to their small-scale economic advantage.

Therefore, the commercial capital of Dashun had to obey the will of the Dashun bureaucracy, focusing on "digesting" the southwest of Ceylon as a forward base, rather than "maximizing profits".

The difference between the two is that if you choose to maximize profits, then maintaining the caste system, maintaining caste labor, and introducing Tamils ​​as slaves are the priority choices for maximizing profits.

Even transporting Han people to Ceylon is fundamentally against the interests of commercial capital.

However, the will of a part of the bureaucracy headed by Liu Yu is not the case.

Moreover, it is obvious that it is too early for the commercial bourgeoisie of Dashun to gain a dominant position and become a ruling class.

This is the difference between the "Dashun Ceylon Military Town Governor's Office" and the "Dashun Ceylon Chartered Trade Company".

Liu Yu was deeply impressed by the Dutch who had been struggling in Nanyang for more than a hundred years, and the small population of the Netherlands, and the good foundation of the Nanyang market, but they actually caused the collapse of their own handicraft industry.

He didn't want Dashun to repeat the same mistake.

This contradiction and conflict between the bureaucratic group with a long-term vision and commercial capital, or the difference in route, was actually one of the reasons why Zhao Liben was worried when he heard that his brother was working in the gem mine.

In fact, after Zhao Liben rioted in the Huanglongfu black gold mine, when he was waiting for amnesty in the county, there were official people who recruited gold diggers there.

It was indeed officially endorsed.

But after Zhao Liben was cheated once, he no longer believed in such things, even if the recruitment conditions were written in a sloppy manner.

He thought that it must be the same as last time, and if he went there, he would really be out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's pit.

So this time when he heard that his brother actually went to work in the gem mine to make money, his heart suddenly sank.

However, in fact, whether it was his brother or the recruitment after he escaped from the Huanglongfu black gold mine, it was really different.

The court, or the regime of a mature unified country, does not only consider pure monetary interests when doing things.

In other words, sometimes it will not only consider short-term interests, which is very different from commercial capital.

For example, the recruitment information he heard last time was done by the court for the needs of border defense and the needs of the national regime of immigrants to implement the border.

There are two prerequisites in total.

In the Vladivostok area, the red-haired rice of the Ezo was used to grow rice that can adapt to the climate of the Northeast.

In the Heilongjiang River Basin, quite good gold mines were discovered in Mohe, Heihe, Fuyuan and other areas in later generations.

There are three conditions forced by reality.

Wuding River, which is the Yongding River in later generations, floods all day long. This is the river in the capital. If it floods here, things will be troublesome, and the population is increasing and the land is decreasing. The surrounding areas of the capital are most afraid of accidents.

The border between Korea and Dashun is increasingly plagued by the problem of Korean refugees.

The anxiety about the northern issue is engraved in the genes, and they hope to increase the efforts to strengthen the border.

These two preconditions, plus these three realities, made Liu Yu take the opportunity to submit a memorial to the emperor and put forward a plan to strengthen the border.

By the way, solve the Wuding River problem and the Korean border immigration problem.

In short, it is to use the gold mines in Mohe, Heihe and Fuyuan as bait to encourage capital development and thus immigration.

In view of the conduct of capital, it must be supervised by the government and managed by the merchants, and immigration should be carried out in a similar way to the additional obligations when the Toyo Trading Company was established.

The general policy is that the court selects excellent officials to supervise this matter.

Recruit excellent foremen from Qixia and other places.

Capital investment, recruitment of population.

The foreman leads people, and the gold is divided into 30% and 70% according to each work group, that is, the work group digging gold takes 30%, and the remaining 70% is owned by the company.

After deducting food, drink, defecation and urination, 25% of the net profit will be taken out, of which 10% will be put into the treasury, and 15% will be used to recruit people, reclaim land on the spot, and promote agricultural development and increase the number of immigrants with the demand for gold mines as the center.

Strive to create seven or eight counties with a population of tens of thousands around the gold mining area in the south of Mohe, Heihe, Fuyuan and other places within ten years, and maintain absolute control over the Heilongjiang River Basin.

Among them, some will be recruited from Guandong.

The rest, the vast majority will be recruited from the surrounding areas of Wuding River, so as to ease the pressure in the capital area - this pressure refers to the social instability factors after the flood, which is the problem that the emperor pays more attention to.

At the same time, two problems will be solved by the way.

When recruiting farmers, on the border of Korea, Korean villages that cross the border will be forcibly recruited, and they will be dispersed and relocated to the gold mining area.

And every time a group of people are relocated, the Han people in the Wuding River area will be used to supplement the villages in the border areas of Korea, and directly take over the houses and reclaimed rice fields in the villages.

After the Koreans were separated from the gold mining area, they lived together with the Han people who migrated there, and also took advantage of their rice planting technology.

At the same time, in view of the coal mining attempts in the salt well area of ​​southern Sichuan, advanced coal mining technology was adopted in Xishan Coal Mine and the surrounding areas of Gyeonggi Province.

On the one hand, it ensures that the capital city uses coal, and the previous coal price will not rise like rice, so as to maintain the stability of the capital city. The capital city cannot be in chaos.

On the other hand, it reduces the consumption of firewood and reduces the silt in the Wuding River.

At that time, the recruitment that Zhao Liben encountered after escaping from the black gold mine was in such a background.

But his painful memory in the black gold mine made him unable to understand the abstract evil of capital seeking profit, but rather a deep fear of gold, silver and gem mines.

However, the court is not a commercial company, let alone a Lijia Dashun company. After all, there is a need for ruling and long-term preparation. Although he wanted to do so and make the world into a Lijia Dashun company, the story of his ancestors told him that it would not last long to turn the world into a "company" that only supports his family.

Therefore, in reality, the gemstone mines in Ceylon were not as cruel as Zhao Liben imagined. At least not as cruel as he had experienced in the black gold mines.