Chapter 507 Nanyang Civil Rebellion
As he grew older, Li Junwei felt that he could not give too much advice from others. He chose to trust others more and more than to give guidance from himself, especially in the family affairs of his elder brother. The elder brother is the person he couldn't figure out the most and did not want to think about it.
In the end, Li Junwei did not meet the representatives of businessmen from various countries. Their appeals could not be guaranteed. The emperor's heart was as deep as a lunar person and the emperor's heart was as strong as a strong person. These people just knew that the relationship between the two brothers was very good, but they forgot that this relationship was not just because of Li Jundu, who was the elder brother, who was also because of Li Junwei's respect and support for his brother. Has Li Junwei done anything that made his brother embarrassed? Has Li Jundu done something that made Li Jundu give in to his interests?
The answer is that there is no one. He just provides support when his brother needs support, and has no demands when his elder brother succeeds.
Li Junwei did not give the children too much advice, and the most affection for these children was still reluctant to leave, but he would eventually leave. When he arrived in Penang by boat, Li Junwei saw the messy docks and riot streets. Even King Yu took a boat and was docked in a naval dock rather than a civilian dock. Local administrative officials arrived in advance to pick up the car, but directly concealed King Yu's arrival.
Just when he saw Li Zhaorui in charge of the Security Bureau, Li Junwei knew that the chaos here was quite large. Standing on the building of the Administrative Office, watching gunfire sound from time to time in the city, and thick smoke rose in the distance, Penang was already in a tense atmosphere.
"I heard that there is an xenophobic trend in various provinces in Nanyang in Xijin. What's going on? Why is it so big?" Li Junwei frowned as he looked at the thick smoke in the distance.
Lee Zhaorui said: "That is the home of Huang Wenyu, a senior member of the Penang House of Councils. What is burned further away is his property. The people in Nanyang are in chaos. Not only Penang, but also in large cities with a population of more than 50,000, but Penang is the most riot."
"Why is it so big?" Li Junwei was a little puzzled.
Li Zhaorui said: "Of course, someone is in conjunction with the guidance of it and taking the opportunity to cause trouble? This is also the reason why Your Majesty sent me here. And the matter here is already very complicated. The people on the official side and local tyrants are not trustworthy? The only credible is the army? And since you have arrived, you must assist you."
As he said that? Li Zhaorui took out a report, which introduced the background of the chaos in the Nanyang people in detail.
The empire has developed the South China Sea for more than 40 years. The seizure of existing achievements in Western colonies and the grabbing of land from the local Little Sultanate laid the foundation for the empire to explore in the South China Sea? Now the Nanyang region has formed three overseas provinces of Penang, Nanhua and Luzon, Kowloon, Borneo, Palawan, Sulu, and Malugu, and four appeasement zones in Banten, Palembang, West Java and East Java, becoming the most prosperous area of the empire overseas? The most populous area? The national population alone exceeds 12 million.
The control of the Nanyang region lies in the expansion of military affairs, but the rise of the Nanyang region has two major driving forces: one is the prosperity of maritime trade, and the other is immigration from the empire and neighboring countries.
Nanyang is located in a tropical region and has fertile land and abundant resources. The cultivation of economic crops such as sugarcane, spices, coffee, tobacco and other economic crops are very rich, and can be transported to the empire and Japan to the east. It can be sold to Europe to the west. During the National Liberation War? A large number of domestic people immigrated here, injecting economic vitality into the place. With the economic development of the local area? Various merchants from the Indian Ocean region and various feudal aristocrats on the Indochina Peninsula in the north have also injected economic vitality into the place.
It can be said that Nanyang has long welcomed all kinds of immigrants, so that when it reached the point of violating imperial laws, the empire has always had strict religious policies. However, during the period of great development of Nanyang, these policies hindered the arrival of immigrants because they were in a state of name-and-death for a long time. However, in recent years, with the rapid increase in the population of the empire's ethnic groups, the second and third generations of immigrants have become the main force of the local population. The conflict between the nation and immigrants has become increasingly deeper and deeper, and finally broke out last year.
Although the slogans that people making trouble on the streets are mostly religious, customs and living habits, Li Zhaorui's report raised a root problem, that is, economy.
At that time, the large-scale development of Nanyang and the large-scale tropical crop planting and mineral mining gave the Nanyang region several economic pillars. However, with decades of stability, everything has changed. When a large number of domestic immigrants came here, the local provinces pursued the policy of whoever reclaimed the land owned by whoever owned it, so a large number of immigrants owned their own land.
At that time, immigrants from the Indochina Peninsula and Java came here. Because they were not citizens, they could not obtain land and could not survive in tightly controlled cities. Therefore, they poured into the countryside to work for land owners. Not only were the big landlords using these cheap foreign workers, but ordinary farmers would also hire them. The cities also welcomed wealthy people and merchants to settle in, bringing prosperity to business. At that time, the most resistant yamen in the entire Nanyang was the Religious Bureau.
However, with the development of the economy, land was merged in large quantities and developed into plantations. These plantations that use large capital, machinery and rich animal power completely suppressed the land production model of ordinary family units. Everything changed completely. Because it was in the tropics, this economic model could not be called "sheep eat people" like later generations, but it is an indisputable fact that farmers gradually lost their land and poured into the city.
And in this process, wealthy foreign immigrants have industries in the city, and they are willing to gather together with the same ethnic group who speak the same language and customs, resulting in the phenomenon of foreigners living in major cities. Although local bureaucrats followed the empire's consistent immigration and household registration policies, they were also slanderous.
The empire has long stipulated that people from other races are not allowed to live together, and even immigrants who have obtained their identities are not allowed to live together. According to the law, assuming that a certain ethnic group in a certain city accounts for one tenth of the population, then in an administrative unit, the population of this ethnic group cannot exceed one tenth. This regulation has been well implemented, but there are policies above and countermeasures below.
Take Penang, Hedong, Binhai and Sigang in Penang, each of which occupies four directions, southeast, west and northeast. The main ethnic minorities are Burmese. They each chose to develop towards the junction of the four districts. In 30 years, a Myanmar community with a population of more than 30,000 was formed. Although they belong to four districts, they gathered together. This is just the number of registered people. Including illegal immigration, I don’t know how many people are.
The gathering of foreign immigrants also brought many problems. They supported each other, preached secretly, formed various gang organizations with religion and ethnicity, and also controlled some guilds.
With the local land annexation problem, all contradictions were aroused. The farmers who lost their land came to the city to seek life, but found that the resources they received were not as good as those immigrants. They wanted to ask for work from foreigners who had once bowed to them. This was nothing. The lost people found that they had become second-class citizens.
Because of the legal status, they will be punished immediately after committing the crime. Many people are exiled to Australia and Africa. Those illegal immigrants do not have legal status and are not the nationality they want. Instead, they will not be exiled no matter what crime they commit. The empire does not allow workshops to discriminate against minorities, so there are many minorities in the workshops run by the state. On the contrary, these minorities are very xenophobic, but there are no nationalities in their workshops.
Work means survival. When foreign immigrants affect the survival of the nation, everything is out of control. On the Indochina Peninsula, Vietnam and Annan, Annan and Laos, Siam and Myanmar, Myanmar and Mughal dynasties repeatedly broke out in conflicts and wars, which also allowed a large number of people to escape into the empire.
But the local tyrants who really ignited the war between the nation and immigrants were the local tyrants. They had the most economic resources and also through being officials, the House of Commons had great authority. Their demands were different from those of the nation. Their workshops and plantations needed cheap labor. Illegal immigration was not only cheap, but also worked hard. They had no local clans to rely on, and they dared not sue for any incident. They were the most suitable labor. Therefore, these people were unwilling to solve the immigration problem.
The weapons taken by the state in the face of illegal immigrants are the law. Without household registration, there is no legal identity. Without legal identity, they will be expelled according to the laws of the empire. Moreover, the strict religious policies of the Religious Bureau have been relocated and have become the greatest reliance of the nation. The local tyrants choose not to adjust conflicts, but to confiscate the state's weapons.
Since immigrants do not have legal identities, let's give it to them.
Therefore, these local tyrants promoted the immigrants as victims of war in their own country, and they stood on the moral high ground to demand tolerance in the local area. In particular, the angry people arrested dozens of illegal immigrants who had just landed on the pier at the dock, all of which were stuffed into his home and occupied the streets, forcing Huang Wenyu to live with these illegal immigrants, closed the doors and windows, and only delivered food in them. The fire in his house was not released by the rioters who made trouble, but Huang Wenyu himself released it himself, and his purpose was to ask for help, not only from the hands of the troublemakers, but also from the hands of the illegal immigrants. In an unordered room, he was beaten and his wife and daughter were humiliated, and he was almost unable to survive.
People like Huang Wenyu are imprisoned, obviously it is not just a rioter, but also political forces support them. Among them are foreign officials, civil servants, and the citizens represented by hospitals, banks, and small business owners. They hate the inconvenience and public security problems caused by illegal immigration, and hate these people robbing their job opportunities.
After reading the report, Li Junwei smiled: "Although it's a big mess, it's not difficult to solve it. You came here, obviously not to solve the problem of illegal immigration."
Li Zhaorui said: "Uncle Yu is sage-wise, and he will reveal the truth in one word."
Li Junwei put down the report and said: "The politics of the powerful and the politics of the public opinion have always been opposed by the empire. The powerful who support illegal immigration should be questioned, but the so-called representatives who organize civil chaos will also be punished!"
Although the empire had a parliament composed of the Senate and the House of Assembly, the Chief Executive Officer led by the cabinet and the seven judges led independent judicial institutions, this was not a separation of powers, but a separation of powers. Local people only chose representatives of their own villages or neighbors, and then went up one after another.
From the local government to the central government, all officials are appointed from the top down and have nothing to do with local elections. Members of parliament and officials are two distinct systems, and they can only choose one of them.
However, the Security Bureau found that some people challenged the imperial political system during the chaos in the South China Sea. Local tyrants were both members of parliament and relatives were officials in the local area. Those who led the chaos wanted to take power based on public opinion, or use public opinion to become parliamentarians, and then expand the authority of the local council. This is what the Security Bureau really needs to deal with.
Li Junwei looked at Li Zhaorui and asked, "Are you waiting for me here? The emperor will not let me participate in this matter. You know, with my temper, the solution is to have a lot of people."
But Li Junwei thought again and thought, perhaps the emperor wanted this result, which would destroy his reputation and prestige within the empire to maintain imperial power.
Li Zhaorui smiled: "Uncle Yu is a joke about his nephew again. You have worked hard and made great contributions. The emperor and others miss you very much. How could you get involved here? It's your old friend who is coming."
When Li Junwei heard this, he felt that he was becoming more and more worried about gains and losses. Although he had been involved in politics, he never participated in domestic affairs and couldn't help but laugh at himself. How could he make his second brother worse the more he thought about it?
"Old friend, who is it?"
"That Su Qingtian." Li Zhaorui said.
Su Ri'an! Li Junwei understood that Su Ri'an is a very principled person and is well-known among the people. He is called the contemporary Hai Rui and Bao Gong. It is most appropriate to let him deal with the chaos in the South China Sea. At least he should take over the public opinion first. Li Junwei looked at Li Zhaorui and said, "Zhaorui, it turns out that you are here to do dirty work."
"The Security Bureau is originally doing dirty work." Li Zhaorui was not polite.
Li Junwei felt that this pair of partners was not bad, one was a civil and one martial artist, one official and one title, one law was greater than the sky, and one royal interests were above everything else. If you want to balance this matter, someone would be shocked, perhaps this was his own responsibility.
"Where has Su Ri'an been?" Li Junwei asked.
"I should arrive in Huacheng now and I will not be here in a few days." Li Zhaorui naturally knew his partner's whereabouts.
Li Junwei frowned: "It's so messy, he still has some ink."
Chapter completed!