Chapter 321 Textile Shares
The previous chapter was blocked. To put it, the content is basically that Ozil launched a bayonet night purge, personally destroyed the Datong regime he founded, and returned Tibet. Tibet lost its status as a vassal state and changed it to the jurisdiction of the Lifanyuan.
Chen Gansheng arrived in Tibet more than a month later than Li Zhaoyu. By the time he arrived, everything had settled. Military control was temporarily imposed in all parts of Tibet. Zhao Kunlun, a familiar face in the Tibetan people, served as the appeasement general and the minister stationed in Tibet, and Tibet began to directly govern the Lifanyuan.
For those who care about politics, this is a drastic change, but for the people who have just survived the snow disaster and famine, there seems to be no political change. The mainstream voices in society are not discussing these upper-class changes, but economic reforms.
The entire Tibet is carrying out a household contract operation, and the land, livestock and production tools that originally belonged to collective farms and pastures were distributed to the people of Tibet according to the population. In Tibet, there was almost no voice to resist the empire, and the reason was very simple.
In the past two most difficult years, the horse team sent by the empire to transport food into Tibet. Now, in the household contract operation, Tibet, which is mainly animal husbandry, is actually cattle, sheep and livestock. Now, hundreds of thousands of cows and ewes raised by the Lifanyuan are gradually entering Tibet.
Tibet is like a single family, a person who goes out to travel and chooses to return to the big family, but the big family is still willing to take care of it.
Chen Gansheng knew that he could not object to anything or do anything, because he saw joy and hope on the faces of the common people who participated in the division of land. Any theory and any ideology needed the support of the people.
"Is it Chen Gansheng, Mr. Chen?"
On this day, Chen Gansheng was recording what he saw and heard in the room. He heard someone talking outside the window and saw a face, feeling a little familiar.
"You...you know me?"
The visitor was a servant of Li Zhaoyu. He said, "Mr. Chen, I wonder if you remember me. I am Qin Nan and Mr. Li Yu's companion. We have seen him in Hami."
Chen Gansheng immediately remembered, as if there was such a person around Li Zhaoyu. He asked, "Is Brother Li Yu here too?"
"No, he has left. Now I have made an appointment to Xining. It was the young master who asked me to wait for you here." Qin Nan said.
Chen Gansheng didn't know what he meant, so he immediately invited him into the house. In fact, there were no hotels in Tibet, especially in such a small town. In the past, there were few tourists, and the people who came and went to and from the government were official, and most of them lived in government agencies. Chen Gansheng now lives in a private residence, and the owner took him in because he could serve as an accountant.
It is really easy to find an outsider like Chen Gansheng, so Qin Nan found him through the garrison.
"Brother Li Yu asked you to wait for me, what's wrong?" Chen Gansheng asked.
Qin Nan brought a large box in and placed it in front of Chen Gansheng: "This is something the young master gave you."
Chen Gansheng, who opened the box, saw high-end and rare objects like cameras, and some other things to wash photos. Qin Nan explained: "The young master has returned to Beijing. He said that you should be able to use these things. He has always been watching pirated books, which has damaged your intellectual rights. He is sorry, hoping that it can make up for it, and he is also upset that he cannot achieve his promise to you and cannot continue to talk to you."
Chen Gansheng didn't expect that Li Yu was too serious. He said, "These are too expensive, I can't accept them."
Qin Nan said: "The young master didn't tell me what to do if you don't accept it, so I have to give it to you. If you don't like it or can't use it, please deal with it yourself. I just need to complete my duties. As for how to use the camera and how to wash photos, it would be fine if you know how to do it. If you don't know, you can ask your colleagues."
Chen Gansheng served as the secretary of the Zhenbeicheng United Trade Union. He can use cameras but cannot wash photos. But this is not important. What is important is: "College, what colleague?"
Qin Nan laughed and slapped his head: "I'm so confused, I forgot to say it."
He took out a small box from the box, which contained an entry and exit certificate, a pass and a work certificate. Everyone on these documents were actually Chen Gansheng. When Chen Gansheng looked, the place on the work certificate read: Us Tibet Documents Office. The most powerful one was the pass, which was issued by Zhao Kunlun, the new minister in Tibet. This means that no one could stop him from going anywhere in Tibet.
Obviously, the Uszang Documents Office is his workplace, and the so-called colleagues should belong to this office.
Qin Nan explained: "The Datong regime in Tibet has ended, but this is a meaningful and worthy of study. The Us Tibet Documents Office is to organize all the documents and materials from the Datong regime era. If you want to understand Tibet and this regime, it is most appropriate to go there.
The young master said, you will definitely want to see the original information about the Datong regime."
Although Chen Gansheng was resistant, this was the place he wanted to go the most. Chen Gansheng said: "I want to conduct a field investigation, so there is no time now."
"Whatever you want, you can go anytime." Qin Nan said, and then asked back: "Mr. Chen, have you agreed to accept the arrangement of the young master?"
“Yes, but……”
Chen Gansheng didn't say anything, Qin Nan turned around and went out: "Just agree. I wish you a happy journey. I'm leaving, goodbye."
"Hey hey, I can't ask for such a valuable thing..." Chen Gansheng chased him out, but Qin Nan seemed to have not heard of it. He had already walked away. When he chased out of the door, he saw a figure that jumped immediately, and the people were getting farther and farther away.
Chen Gansheng returned to the room and fiddled with the things. When he was packing up, he saw a photo from the camera box. It was a photo of Li Zhaoyu in front of a palace in Lhasa. There were a few words and an address written on it behind it.
In fact, Li Zhaoyu originally planned to stay in Lhasa for a while and make friends with Chen Gansheng, but reality made him feel helpless. The matter in Tibet ended quickly, and Li Zhaoyu quickly received Shen Jingxin's instructions to go to Shaanxi to worship the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor on behalf of the emperor.
Obviously, this was a very political action. Li Zhaoyu did not dare to neglect it, so he hurried out to hide in Guanzhong and went to prepare.
At the end of May, King Yu and his second son Li Zhaocheng, who returned from sea, also set off to return to China, and their operations in Suez were also declared over.
Originally, in accordance with Li Junwei's plan, while supporting Ali, he also damaged the relationship between the three Western European countries and the Ottoman Empire as much as possible. Although the overall plan is still towards this plan, it is difficult to end in a short period of time.
Ali led his army to enter Tunisia successfully, joined with the Tunisian army, and became a relatively independent force to fight against European colonists. European countries did continue to invest in North Africa, but the Ottoman Empire maintained restraint and the two sides did not declare war.
Seeing that the situation could not be opened for a short time and the foundation had been laid, Li Junwei chose to leave and boarded the cruiser of the Imperial Navy.
The cruiser crossed the Indian Ocean and did not stop on the Arabian Peninsula or the subcontinent. Even the replenishment of coal was supplied by the supply ship at sea. He headed straight to Penang. Li Junwei did not stay in Penang too much. In the provinces of the Nanyang Empire, the only city that stayed for more than three days was Temasek, which was later Singapore.
In the sailing era, the Strait of Malacca where Singapore is located is located in the equatorial windless zone, so this city at the throat of the sea has no development potential. However, with the popularity of steam-powered ships, Temasek's status is becoming more and more important. It is already a city of 70,000 people, with sufficient development potential.
After Li Junwei stayed, he only made some inspections and transferred to the local fleet's cruiser Haidongqing to head north.
However, according to the rules, before returning to the empire, Li Junwei, as the prince of the empire, had to participate in a military exercise. This was a military exercise between the local fleet, the Nanyang Squadron and Guangnan Navy. The Haidong Qing is a flagship, and it is also a few steam-powered gunboats, patrol boats, etc.
This is to demonstrate the importance of the navy. After all, this army was founded by the imperial royal family. Since King Cheng's expedition to Goa, there has been no prince as the naval commander for many years.
Because Li Zhaocheng was interested in this, thinking that his son would enter a long-term and boring student life after returning to China, Li Junwei, as a father, was willing to let his son enjoy the last time.
Because of this exercise called the "Eagle of Peace", Li Junwei arrived at the country he had ever gone, Guangnan. There is no doubt that the Guangnan Congress held a grand welcome ceremony, and Li Junwei also felt the luxury of the monarch of the small country in Nanyang in Hue.
The current Guangnan king named Nguyen Phuc, who is already the seventh generation king. Although Guangnan has a population of less than one million, it is the empire's most stable ally in the Nanyang region and a model among all the vassal states of the empire.
In the past, the Guangnan Kingdom carried out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation with the empire, from economic and trade to military cooperation. In that era, Guangnan was still under military pressure from Annan Kingdom in the north. He relied on the firearm army trained by the Portuguese to defend the defense line. After the rise of the empire, Guangnan moved closer to the empire, and Annan once cooperated with the Qing Dynasty.
But that was a passing cloud. Now both countries are vassal states of the empire. After the establishment of the empire, it changed the custom of the previous dynasty that only recognized Annan but did not recognize Guangnan. It directly recognized two regimes and two countries.
Li Junwei rode a white elephant into the Shunwang Palace and felt the luxury here. However, in the hot summer, Li Junwei was really uncomfortable. After attending the event, he went to the embassy.
"Why are there so many Japanese?" On the way back, Li Junwei found that the soldiers who maintained order on the roadside were blocking many people, many of them were Japanese. What's even more strange is that these Japanese people shouted at Yu Wang's car.
As soon as Li Junwei asked, he saw a Japanese businessman rushing over the soldier blockade, kneeling in front of the carriage, holding a roll of paper in his hand, and shouting loudly, as if he was about to stop the carriage and complain.
Bai Le said: "Your Highness, during this period, Japanese merchants have been making a big fuss in Hue. Before you came, the Lord of Guangnan also sent troops to suppress the demonstrations of Japanese merchants, beat two people to death and arrested more than a dozen."
"It's really rare. The Japanese are causing trouble in Guangnan." Li Junwei smiled.
Bai Le knew Japan. He made his mark from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because he understood Japan and was entertaining the Japanese mission. Of course, his identity is special now because he is also the brother of the Princess of the Empire, which is enough to make him rise to the top. As long as he served as an ambassador in Hue for two years, he could be fully responsible for his diplomatic work towards Japan.
"Your Highness, this is normal. Within our vassal system, Guangnan and Japan are having the most troubles." Bai Le said.
"Why are the troubles? What are the conflicts between these two countries thousands of miles apart?" Li Zhaocheng asked.
"They are competing for the empire's textile quota," Bai Le said, pointing to the side of the street and said, "Second Master, you see, there are companies related to textiles everywhere, and in the south of the city, it is a textile industrial area."
Guangnan is very special among the Nanyang countries. Other countries are feudal monarchies and are relatively closed. They gradually founded and traded under the policy of carrots and sticks of the empire. However, Guangnan is different. Guangnan is also a feudal monarchy, but it opened very early and became the most modern country in Nanyang, with the most advanced seaports and the most developed industry.
Although Guangnan is still under a feudal monarchy, two generations of monarchs have been constantly reforming. For example, Guangnan lord Nguyen Phuchy had an advisory group, and some economic and foreign policies were consulted. Although it was an advisory group, its members were all businessmen and had a huge influence.
Guangnan almost copied the laws and regulations of the empire. It was the first country in Nanyang to legislate to protect commercial activities, and the entire country's trade was very prosperous. Because of this opening up to the outside world, when the empire's textile industry was a low-end industry, Guangnan was almost the first choice.
In recent years, Japan has also opened up to the outside world, and the shogunate has begun to increase its external contacts. The southwestern vassals, which have long been included in the imperial economic system, have even thrived in breeding and industrial development. Compared with Guangnan, Japan has a lower labor force, which is closer to the Yangtze River Delta, the imperial economic center, and is also an important place for the transfer of the imperial textile industry.
At least forty-three years of the empire, except for these two places, the rest of the countries, no matter how closely the empire was, did not have such ability for the time being. Because Japan and Guangnan also played an important role in the empire's economic system, the imperial government was more inclined to Guangnan, so Guangnan took advantage of the textile share allocation.
In the past, this was nothing, but in the 43rd year of the empire, when the new three-year textile share allocation was formulated, a corruption case broke out. The Japanese seized this opportunity and criticized it because the meeting was held in Hue, so the relationship between the two sides became even more tense.
"No wonder that guy Ruan Phucai is so attentive today. It turns out that there is a reason for this." Li Junwei remembered the attitude of the Guangnan king today and couldn't help but complain.
Chapter completed!