North Port, Luzon.In less than half a year since Donghai Town came here, the entire harbor has undergone considerable changes.Before the landfall of Donghai Town, the harbor was surrounded by primitive and dense tropical jungle, a wild scene.At this moment, around the harbor, large forests were burned, and in the midst of the black ashes, a fortress rose from the ground.Around the fort was land that had been reclaimed, as well as houses and warehouses that had been built.In the harbor, a simple wharf was built, and nearly 100 sea vessels were moored.At this time, the sea ships with masts are lined up, the coolies on the dock are carrying bags of grain and military supplies from the ships, and countless figures on the land are farming and working, a busy scene.Zhao Ming rode a horse and stood on a mountain, and Dong Zhining, a staff member beside him, introduced with a smile: "Prime Minister, all the land that has been reclaimed now is used to grow rice, and the land in the north is planned to be used to grow cotton and tobacco after being reclaimed. ”Dong Zhining was born in Ningbo, and he defected to Zhao Ming during the Battle of Jinhua, which can be regarded as an old revolutionary.Due to the restrictions of the imperial court, Donghai Town's overseas expansion has not been approved by the central government at present, and the imperial court will naturally not give Donghai Town any official positions such as Taiwan Propaganda Envoy and Luzon Propaganda Envoy.Of course, Zhao Ming did not plan to ask the imperial court to seal it, but the colonization needed to establish a set of teams to manage and rule.After Zhao Ming thought about it again, he decided to manage and run the colony in the name of the company, and Dong Zhining was the first governor of Luzon of Huaxing Company that Zhao Ming was going to appoint."
Luzon is a good place, rich in produce, rich in land, and really suitable for growing tobacco."
Zhao Ming bowed slightly, but then asked, "Is there enough manpower?"
”Dong Zhining shook his head, "We have few people of our own, and the North Koreans can't adapt to the Luzon climate, and there are many people who die of illness.There are a lot of local natives, but they are lazy by nature, and the company tempts them with cloth, porcelain, and money, and they often work for a few days, and after receiving the money, they don't come, and they will come to work for a few days when they have played, which is very inefficient. ”In the process of going south, Zhao Ming gradually had a complete plan for the future development of Donghai Town.This is to carry out indoctrination, to educate the four razors, to turn razors into summer, and to establish a great Chinese civilization circle.There is a saying in "Mencius", "I have heard of those who use Xia to change to raze, and I have not heard of those who have changed to raze!"
”It means that I have only heard of using the civilization of the Central Plains to change the barbarians, but I have never heard of being changed by the barbarians.This sentence reflects the self-confidence and strength of the Chinese nation in its own civilization during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, just like the "universal values" advocated by US imperialism today, full of confidence in its own culture and civilization, and believes that the world is only right and good if it is like them.Nowadays, because the Chinese people have suffered a century of humiliation, they are no longer as confident in their own civilization and culture as the ancients, and even have serious doubts.At this time, China was still on top of the world, and Zhao Ming thought that since China was the center of world civilization, China had the responsibility to educate the four yi, so that the barbarians could become a part of the Chinese civilization world, so as to promote the civilization of the whole world and establish the "universal values" that belonged to China.As a result, the colonization of Donghai Town, driven by profits, also rose to another level, providing reasonable ideological and political goals.Of course, at the same time of implementation, Zhao Ming also listened to the warnings of his staff, and indoctrination is not a blind exercise of benevolence and righteousness."
When you rule, you must treat your own people as brothers and sisters, you must treat the people with faith, and you must use strong force to protect your own safety.Therefore, when Zhao Ming implemented indoctrination, he mainly started from several aspects, one is to implement culture and education, with China's strong cultural and economic soft power, so that the barbarians worship China psychologically and recognize China culturally, and second, encourage intermarriage, with the advanced Donghai Town, the Han people can get more social resources in terms of economic advantages, and can take more barbarian women as wives and concubines, and assimilate from the blood.The third is to suppress the barbarians who do not obey the indoctrination by force and eliminate them physically.In Zhao Ming's vision, as in the past dynasties, he will influence and assimilate the surrounding areas in the form of concentric circles, and establish a Greater Chinese civilization circle.The way of the early expansion of Chinese civilization, centered on the Central Plains, affected the surrounding areas, making Chu in the south, Qin in the west, Xianyu and Qiu You in the north, Lai in the east, and many other Yidi, turning razing into Xia, and then the unification of Qin and Han, and then continuing to influence Baiyue in the south, to the Ming Dynasty, in fact, Annam, Korea, Ryukyu and even Japan have been highly sinicized or accepted the influence of Chinese culture.Of course, in this process, there is no country that really dominates all this as a subject, and there is no planned expansion of civilization, but by many dynasties and countries over the ages, without consciousness.The result of this is that there is no efficiency, there will be repetition, and even regression, and what Zhao Ming wants to do is to carry out and promote the development and expansion of the Chinese cultural circle in a planned way, in order to look forward to educating the four Yi and promoting the civilization and progress of the whole world, and the first step he took is to incorporate Nanyang into the civilization circle, and then radiate out in a circle.Zhao Ming listened to Dong Zhining's words and nodded, "Don't be too anxious about this matter, you have to imperceptibly affect them."
People always yearn for a better life, you have to show the local people, see how we Han people live, let them understand how backward and barbaric their current state is, so that they can have an example, and some of them will naturally change. ”After landing in Luzon, in order to establish a distinction between itself and the Spanish and other colonists, the local natives were forced to work and were given a certain amount of compensation.Although this will increase some expenses, how can employers lose money when they hire people to work, it is just less exploitation.For example, in Donghai Town, a worker in the Jiangdong workshop can weave a piece of cloth in half a month, but this piece of cloth in Luzon can employ more than ten laborers and work for a month.In the middle, although Donghai Town paid a piece of cloth, but what it gained was actually more, this is the Donghai Town civilization, the advantage of backward civilization, and this exploitation is far more secretive, advanced and civilized than backward slavery and serfdom.Dong Zhining thought about it and couldn't help asking, "What about those who are not affected and are still lazy?"
”Zhao Ming said without emotion: "They!
Naturally, it is eliminated!
”At this time, while the two were talking, Tang Tong hurried over, "Prime Minister, scout returns, Hongmaoyi's ship has arrived in Luzon!"
”Zhao Ming raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said in surprise: "It's finally here!"
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