Guangzhou, in the back residence of Ambassador Yingtian.
"Litchi, lychee, so many lychees"
The small hanging calamus buried his head in a pile of lychees higher than she was sitting, living like a happy chipmunk and stuffing his mouth full.
However, it didn't take long for her to stop suddenly, and her eyes stared at the distant sky in a daze, and the piles of lychees suddenly lost their appeal.
"Waner is homesick..."
Then he walked the skeletal spirit who had already swelled a circle of bears, wolf dogs, and walked over to take her in his arms and warmly said.
"Sister, I somehow miss that villain..."
The little pendant was unexpectedly in her arms, raising her delicate face.
"Think of the stories he told me, the things he taught me, the way he looked when he laughed and was angry..."
"..."
Then, the skeleton spirit burst into tears and sighed, holding the small pendant hard.
"All slaves are not good, all slaves are useless, tired you have become the situation you are now. A slave is really nothing to redeem."
"Sister, don't say that..."
The small pendant also became teary.
"Even if we didn't have those things at the beginning, how could our situation be better in the future..."
"At least that thief who likes to bully has some truths right."
"There is no natural wealth and power in this world, and no one is born to suffer and suffer and die from starvation..."
"Looking back, it was just squandering the legacy of the ancestors desperately, and self-deception was taken for granted..."
"Therefore, even if there is no such thief... we still cannot escape from what happened..."
"Wan'er don't want to say that... how can you succumb to the thieves..."
The skeleton spirit looked a little messy and a little frightened.
"As long as the slave is fully breathed, I will try my best to find an opportunity to get you out of this dangerous situation..."
"go back,"
The childish face of the small pendant came, but it showed the most distressing melancholy, and he sighed softly.
"This world is so big, where can we go back..."
. . . . . . .
Luankou Ferry outside Jiaozhou City is full of fleets ready to go.
In front of Zhou Huai'an, there was a simple four-course meal, simmered pork knuckles with tamarind, stuffed kidney bean snails, fried fish and ginger fried teal. The staple food is the three-color rice of blood glutinous rice, green rice, and fragrant rice. It is baked in a bamboo tube to produce tube festival rice. This is his last meal before leaving Jiaozhou.
Maybe if you insist for a while, you can complete the infiltration and transformation of most of the plains in northern Annan outside Jiaozhou, without having to compromise with those places and leave more hands and tails to clean up later.
But in reality, there are not so many ifs and possibilities. After all, Zhou Huai'an's real focus and foundation are still in the north, unless he wants to be the monkey nation of the Indo-China Peninsula in later generations, unanimously recognized as the pioneering ancestor.
In this short limited time, Zhou Huaian presided over the initial reconstruction of the Jinghai Navy in the name of the left-behind envoy. It’s just that the 9,000 troops are all composed of those young and strong who came to join in the Battle of Ping Barbarian, or those who have contributed, are selected from the armed forces; and the strong and colorful united soldiers in Jiaozhou City. At the same time, as a mobile force for daily guarding and deterring places in Jiaozhou City.
It’s just that the daily expenses for clothing, food, and temporary use of troops need to be shared by the big and small families under the name of the Duhu Mansion on a regular basis; while the armored weapons and daily drills are provided and controlled by the rebels. It constitutes a binary structure with relative checks and balances. For other matters and emergencies, the permanent representatives and volunteer agents of each family are composed. A collegiate meeting under the name of the Togo Prefecture decides the countermeasures.
Of course, it is impossible for the natives around Annan to be cleaned up just by fighting these days. But at least Zhou Huai'an can guarantee that after his hands, what will remain is relatively weak and highly civilized existence; they also have to provide various properties, taxes and labor to Jiaozhou to ensure their continued value. At the same time, they are also used to remind those tycoons that it is not so easy to cross the river and demolish the bridge.
Then, Annan or Jiaozhou’s daily affairs were handed over to the pro-affiliated forces headed by Qu Rong, the representative of the Qu family; as for Qu Chengyu himself, Zhou Huaian just said, “You should have a broader world to seek Future and ambition..." It was easy for him to decide to continue following himself and leave Annan, a corner with a limited pattern.
therefore,
When Zhou Huai'an led his troops to leave Jiaozhou Dagang, not only the overall slightly lost troops were greatly expanded, but there were also more than 17,000 new pawns and servants from the local area; they were all selected from the local young men who joined the army. , There is no worry or burden, and people who are willing to go out of Annan, where they have lived for generations, and go to the northern inland to find some future and way out.
As a result, even the returning ship group was overturned tenfold; of course, some ships were compensated according to the agreement, or they were local representatives who were scheduled to be stationed in Guangzhou, and there were also troops who were determined to follow the return journey. A local ship merchant in Guangzhou; there are also some "ghosts, ghosts and snakes" recruited through the old connections of the new subordinate Lisiya.
Of course, those who can get this opportunity are mainly smugglers and salt lords who have relatively little harm to the social order or have not committed crimes; as the price for them to go ashore and conduct public activities for this purpose, they must not be easily taken care of in the military for the time being. In the gray areas that he arrived, he contributed to the rebel regime represented by Zhou Huaian:
For example, under the constraints of a certain order and bottom line, it is used to fill the gap of underground forces in Guangzhou, an international metropolis; to discover, combat and eliminate the eyeliners and spies sent by other forces, by controlling some ancient gray industries and underground forces. In places, the root causes of scams, abductions, stealing, and theft are suppressed, and the soil and signs of vicious crimes such as murder and transgression are eliminated exclusively; even at sea to deal with former colleagues and old knowledge, to protect the exclusive interests and safety of the route.
In addition to being loaded with local trophies and specialties, there are many native men and women with panic and bleak faces on these ships; they have been booked as a supplement to the new labor under the rule of the rebels.
This is also a new development that Zhou Huai'an helped those relatively remote and poor tycoons in the South while using their own family and country to force those local forces to redeem slaves and clear the land to a certain extent. A slender industry;
It is to let these local tycoons armed with wars to capture and sell as much as possible the Tu nationality male and female populations represented by the Xiyuan barbarian and the Lin Shan barbarian, who are not convinced by the king in the local mountains, and then exchanged for the import of corresponding commodities and materials from Guangzhou through the seaborne trade channel. .
At least in the Pearl River Basin controlled by the Rebels, the plantations and public farms developed in various places also have a lot of hunger and thirst for this cheap labor; since the Rebels must ensure the basic living standards and relative benefits of the people under the rule. , Then it needs a large number of alternative "non-my race and not distressed" existence to accept the highly organized mode of sophisticated exploitation and squeeze.
For these local tycoons, this is also a good thing to reduce peripheral threats and shift post-war social conflicts, and to benefit from it all. This is the most basic immediate and microscopic view.
From a macro perspective, this is also a normal state in the evolutionary history of human civilization; winners in civilized competition usually use the corpse of the loser as a stepping stone, nourishment, and firewood to continue to stand among the nations of the world. The front sang forward.
Whether it is rough slavery and squeeze, integration and absorption, enlightenment and education, or more covert economic colonization and monopoly blood-sucking; it is just that the manifestations are different in different eras and stages of social development.
In addition, there are hundreds of craftsmen of various colors with expertise, as well as hundreds of young children who have studied in the family or received basic education in the school. Of course, the reason for choosing young people is mainly because they are motivated and impulsive; they are less contaminated and influenced by traditional accumulation, and they are more likely to accept the infusion of new things (brainwashing).
On the other hand, they are mainly children who are prodigal or collateral. They are not deeply involved in the interests of their family, and their sense of identity with their own class is not yet formed. They face the hardships and difficulties of the working people directly or participate in the bottom labor and production. It's easier to reverse it through the actual appearance;
According to the experience and lessons of later generations, generally speaking, only those who have experienced hardship have the motivation and desire to urgently change the status quo; and those with a little better living conditions have a higher starting point, and do not have so much patience and perseverance, so put down your body and sink into it. Do something at the grassroots level.
After all, what Zhou Huai'an needs is a group of practical staff who can start from the bottom, not some traditional staff and officials who can only exaggerate and talk about the big truth, or are proficient in the hidden rules of the system and official methods, and are good at pleasing the drill. What.
On the face of it, as the price of sending troops this time, apart from Jiaozhou Dagang and the nearby towns and towns of supporting industries, they only got the title of staying behind under the Annan Duhufu publicly recognized by the other side; on the face of it, except Outside of some chambers of commerce and guards, even the direct garrison in Jiaozhou City did not remain.
But don't underestimate this title. In the joint deliberations formed by Annan's wealthy families, they have the ultimate arbitration rights. This is more in line with Zhou Huai'an's current control capability limit of the rebels, as well as continued interference and intervention in Annan's local power structure in the future.
And through the resettlement of the villages in coastal areas, not only can we obtain a stable source of food output, but also a way to supplement potential sources of troops and labor. Although the quality and level of the Annan soldiers are at the bottom of many military towns in the world, they need to be guarded by the court from Jiangxi, Hunan, Xichuan, Henan and other places.
However, as the third and fourth line garrison forces to maintain local order, or the labor for the army to open up and siege and build cities, it is still a relatively large and cheap source. In this way, Zhou Huai'an can more calmly follow the tide and the Fujian immigrants and their descendants from various states, and recruit those poor people, miners, and fisher households who have been through a certain collective life and under military control as the main ones. Supplement the source of troops. (End of this chapter)