Chapter 25 Arrangements
Whether in the era of society or the United States, to be honest, the biggest benefit of China-Ming Dynasty cooperation was the Qiongfan, and the Qiongfan received the greatest support from the United States was not because of the personal relationship between Li Mingxun and Lin Shizhang and others, but because of the huge common interests of both parties.
The Qiongfan vassal states and the administrative regions of the United States gave each other the most favorable state treatment. Merchants of both sides could do business and live in the other's territory, just like in their own country. In the Qiongfan system, the state-owned and private enterprises of the United States occupied a lot of shares or had strong voices. The Qiongfan was inseparable from the United States. In terms of politics, it was not the United States that were the Qiongfan, but the Qiongfan vassal state-owned enterprises, but the Qiongfan vassal state-owned enterprises, but the Qiongfan vassal state-owned enterprises.
For example, in terms of the official system, the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty led to the inability to effectively organize the imperial examination system, and the prevalence of warlords and vassal states made the imperial examination disappear. Especially after Sun Kewang came out of Yunnan to fight against the Qing Dynasty, the literati and officials were already dispensable. The army and territory of the Southern Ming Dynasty were completely controlled by the vassal states. The emperor and officials were already mascots, and the Qiongfan was no exception.
At the beginning of the Qiongfan vassal state, the three giants Lin Shizhang, Yuan Shizhong and Huang Fei sent their family sons and nephews to take over all important military and political positions in western Guangdong and took the first step of independence of Qiongfan. Even when Guangdong and Guangxi collapsed, a large number of royal families and officials flocked to Qiongfan. Qiongfan only provided survival information and did not even give necessary treatment. Some people once robbed a village around Qiongzhou Prefecture City, and robbed seven or eight ministers, ministers, more than a dozen counts and dukes, and many Zhu Ming royal families. When dealing with these people, Qiongfan was very tough, and they had no power, officials, soldiers, and money. If you stay in Qiongfan, at most you will give you a piece of land of standing and a piece of land for cultivation. If you don’t want to, please go to Yunnan and Guizhou to find the emperor.
The "sinization" of Qiongfan just began. After the establishment of the United Front School, Qiongfan sent hundreds of young students to Jeju to study military and political affairs. After the establishment of the United Front School in Hong Kong, the number was even greater. These students who returned from their studies were quickly placed in important positions. The army was naturally easy to talk about, and the military orders were as high as mountains, and others could not say anything. However, when the students of the United Front School's political and legal department were placed in the government offices of various state governments, it triggered a huge rebound from the literati class. These Jinshi who had studied hard for ten years had nowhere to be placed, so how could they appoint those who had not even participated in the imperial examination?
For this matter, Lin Shizhang directly used his sword to the scholars, but when it comes to appointment, Lin Shizhang still used his brains and came up with a system of giving birth.
Lin Shizhang first opened a new school in Qiongzhou Prefecture, recruiting literate students aged 12 to 14. After graduation, he went to the Hong Kong United Front School to study in the Political and Legal Department, or stayed in western Guangdong as an official. After the United Front School was completed, he could choose to go back to western Guangdong to work, or go to Taipei to go to the National University. In this way, junior, intermediate and senior students appeared. Lin Shizhang asked for a large number of imperial edicts from Yongli to all participants.
The graduates who graduated from work were given birth to scholars, the former students who graduated from the United Front School, and the former students who graduated from the National University were given birth to Jinshi. They combined the Ming Dynasty's imperial examinations with the new education. In the future, these people were selected according to their origins. They were given Jinshi as Jinshi, and they were given Jushi as appointed. Several orthodox Jushi were randomly assigned to them, which directly established the official appointment system dominated by Qiongfan.
What Lin Shizhang didn't know was that this set of forced political rules played a huge role in the United States' future recovery of the mainland, and eventually affected the examination system of the Chinese nation in the future. The so-called system of granting births eventually evolved into an academic system, and Jinshi and Juren gradually evolved into a degree.
This set of appointments made officials of the Qiongfan vassal states, and most of the generals were trained by the United States. The merger of the two countries laid the foundation for the future merger. What is higher than the ruling class is the integration of economy and trade. When the economic foundation and superstructure are inseparable from the United States, the identity of the Qiongfan, the number one ally of the United States, is a reassuring person.
Similar official appointment systems were also applied to Jinfan, and Li Dingguo had no objection to this. He only required that the first batch of people who went to the United Front School to study were the sons and nephews of the generals of Jinfan. The new-style schools opened in Guangzhou and Huizhou only recruited children of Jinfan within three years.
It was not that Li Dingguo did not know the intention of this system, but it did not violate his principles. Qiongfan used this system to obtain strong military strength and extremely high political efficiency. Li Dingguo also wanted to do so. His fundamental principle was to oppose the Qing Dynasty, and it was only anti-Qing. The resumption of Ming Dynasty and the non-Ming Dynasty had nothing to do with him. Only the royal family of Zhu Ming and the scholars and officials would oppose this kind of political system. Li Dingguo's goals were not the same as these two.
The only thing that made the United States dissatisfied with the United States was tolerate the gentry class. After regaining Guangdong and Guangxi, Li Dingguo only confiscated the vassals, officials, generals and soldiers in Guangdong, but chose to ignore the gentry class. Even those gentry whose clan members were officials in the Qing court and had a marriage relationship with the Three Han vassals only collected a batch of atonement silver. In Guangdong, all the gentry in Chaozhou were caught in one go.
Li Mingxun understood Li Dingguo's decision more. He had just entered Guangdong and used the local area as his vassal. If he had eliminated the gentry class, who would help him manage the vassal and collect taxes? Li Dingguo left the southwest sequence and took away only elite soldiers but no bureaucratic class. He could not hand over his vassals to officials sent by western Guangdong and the United States. As for the old and young people who came up with shame, Li Dingguo distrustd him and even arrested a large number of people on the grounds of pretending to be Ming officials.
Of course, Jinfan and Zhu Mingyou were still very different from the exemption of gentry. In terms of governance, especially taxation and land system, Li Dingguo used the simple and crude set of Sun Kewang implemented in Yunnan directly in Guangdong and improved it. The Jinfan soldiers inherited all the houses and half of the land in the Sanhan Fan period, and distributed the remaining half to poor people as official land to win the support of the people. Li Dingguo used a mandatory order to reduce the land rent and tax rate of the land to the point of being supported by the people.
10% and then high tax rates were imposed on the people. Like Yunnan, 10% of the production per mu belonged to the landlord, 50% belonged to the people, and 40% belonged to the Jin vassal state. The exploitation of the people was greatly reduced. The rent originally paid to the landlord became taxes paid to the court. Jin vassal state actually cut off the landlord's flesh and ate them. The Jin vassal state and Qiong vassal state jointly announced that all the tax arrears that had been abolished before the eighth year of Yongli were abolished, whether it was the Qing Dynasty or Zhu Ming, whether it was Longwu, Yongli or other emperors, all those who were levied by the state were cancelled.
In other economic policies, Li Dingguo still gave compensation to the United States or made. For example, in terms of money system, although Li Dingguo announced that all coins could be circulated except for the Qing Dynasty, he required that whenever military pay was issued, the expenses of the official general, military procurement and tax payments were paid, only Chinese silver and copper rounds were collected.
After several simple and rough combinations, Guangzhou ushered in great economic development after stability, with abundant people and prosperous economy, laying the foundation for the Allies to recover their hometowns in the future.
In August, most of the rectification of military affairs had been implemented, and most of the warlords found their own way out. A few who had two hearts contacted Sun Kewang or even the Qing Dynasty, and were quickly destroyed. Among the vassal states, the Zhongzhen Camp of the Shun Army and the Hui Basal were the most important. The conditions for agreeing to the two vassal states before the war remained unchanged, but the two vassal states needed to accept the direct leadership of the Qiong Basal state and the Jin Basal states. Obviously, the two vassal states would not agree, and Li Mingxun could only solve the problem in person.
Lee Mingxun wanted Huifan to join the Kowloon Development Company and colonize in the Kowloon region. With thousands of elite soldiers of Huifan, Lee Mingxun promised to obtain 10% of Du Yonghe's equity in the next time the Kowloon Development Company's public offering to raise funds, but Du Yonghe refused.
In Kowloon Development Company, Li Chengdong's three sons are major shareholders. When Li Chengdong split up for Dongxun, Du Yonghe had a quarrel with his third adopted son. How could he still be together? Du Yonghe was unwilling to continue to be a general in Guangdong and Guangxi. He was once ranked alongside Qiongfan and Jinfan. Once he was dependent on others, he couldn't overcome this hurdle.
Du Yonghe finally chose to go to South Africa and join the African company to colonize. Among the only 4,600 soldiers (including auxiliary soldiers) in Huifan, 1,300 were willing to go to Africa with the commander. Li Mingxun distributed 30,000 acres of free land for these soldiers and their families in Junfu, and these soldiers will all join the African company and become their official employees. In the next share expansion, the company's employees and immediate relatives have priority subscription rights for the shares.
In addition, Du Yonghe persuaded 1,500 of them to go to the Kowloon area and join Li Chengdong's adopted son, and the condition was that Li Mingxun came to notarize, and 7% of the shares of Kowloon Company belonged to Li Chengdong's underage son Li Yuanhao.
As for the other soldiers, they either joined the Qiongfan or returned to their homeland. Some of them sold their property in Guangdong and went to Taiwan or Luzon. Perhaps these soldiers who had gone through countless wars wanted to go to a place that could truly stay away from the war.
The Zhongzhen Camp of the Shun Army was a lot of trouble. After all, they had established the Dashun Dynasty and almost completed the change of dynasty. Except for the United States, no one looked down upon it in their bones. Qiongfan was Zhu Ming, and Jinfan was Daxi, and they were all enemies of Dashun. It was absolutely unacceptable to be annexed by them. The Shun Army neither wanted to disarm the army and return to the fields nor to be controlled by others. They also wanted to be active on this stage, but when Guangdong and Guangxi had no territory, the Shun Army had only two ways out.
"Duke Ying, I know your concerns very well, but at present, I have no better way. In Guangdong and Guangxi, you can only be subordinate to one of the two vassals of Qiong and Jin. If you continue to be independent, I think you may have to go to Kuidong." Li Mingxun said helplessly to Gao Yigong.
The so-called Kuidong is the last resistance area in the mainland during the Anti-Qing War in the late Ming Dynasty, the only junction between Sichuan, Hubei and Shaanxi. Some of the Dashun Army troops formed an alliance with the local anti-Qing landlord armed forces. In history, the last little blood of the Zhongzhen Camp was also lost there, but because of Li Mingxun's time travel, the historical trajectory had completely changed.
Gao Yigong's face was pale. He was getting older and he was a little exhausted. He said: "Your Excellency, it is really difficult to travel from Guangdong and Guangxi to Kuidong. It is blocked by the mountains and rivers. How can I make a trip? Moreover, Kuidong was trapped by the Qing Dynasty. There was neither food, grass nor armor, and it was impossible to accomplish great things."
From Guangdong to Kuidong, you need to travel through the occupied area of Sun Kewang. When Sun Kewang is actually hostile to the United States, no one can guarantee that Sun Kewang will move. It is even more difficult to pass through the enemy-occupied area of the Qing Dynasty. Zhongzhen Camp is not only the only seven or eight thousand soldiers, but also more than 30,000 families. It would be great to take so many people to travel through four provinces and migrate thousands of miles. Half of them can survive to Kuidong.
"Your Excellency, can I follow your country's lineage? " Gao Yigong said, this was the second way he thought of.
The military system of the United States was mostly changed by the peasants in Shandong, with a total scale of more than 10,000 people. At this moment, the United States was rotating between Jeju and Qingdao fortresses. The United States provided its weapons, food and salary. It fought for the United States and accepted command, and was actually more like a mercenary.
"You are the Duke of Ying, the emperor of Yongli, so it is not appropriate to do this." Li Mingxun felt a little embarrassed. The Yi army incorporated by the United States Army in the past were all peasant uprising armed forces. Although they were from Ming, they had no official positions and titles in the Ming Dynasty. The Zhongzhen Camp was built by Emperor Longwu. Gao Yigong was also a Duke of Yongli. Let his righteousness go from the United States, which means openly digging Zhu Ming's corner. If you can dig a Zhongzhen Camp today, wouldn't it be even the Jinfan and Qiongfan ditches tomorrow? Although these two vassals are also in Li Mingxun's plan, it is not in line with the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water.
With the urinary nature of the civil servants and vassal kings of the Yongli regime, if they really do this, they may declare war on the United States.
The Zhongzhen Camp is not worth the risk of the United States, and only the Qiongfan and Jinfan are worth it. If Li Mingxun wants to take the blame for the world, he simply gives Lin Shizhang and Li Dingguo the status of the elders of these two feudals, and then he will not be worth the loss.
Gao Yigong knelt on the ground and said sincerely: "Your Highness, the Qing Dynasty has a deep blood hatred with my Dashun lineage. I must avenge Dashun. Please ask the Youth First Highness to find a way out for our troops."
Li Mingxun helped him up and said, "Brother Bi Zheng, if you insist on resisting Qing to the end, you will only be wronged by your loyal camp."
Gao Yigong asked: "Please tell me the head of state."
Li Mingxun's method was very simple. He asked Gao Yigong to lead the Zhongzhen Camp and all his family to Luzon, and left his Ming nationality. Gao Yigong also gave up his title of Ming Dynasty. He accepted employment from the local chief executive district in Luzon and went to the Kagayan Valley to expand the colony. It was called Taiqing. It was actually adapted. He first made him a mercenary and then modernized the Zhongzhen Camp. His officers went to the Army Academy for education, and soldiers received army training, so that the Zhongzhen Camp military system, tactics and equipment were the same as the Army. After completion, he would reorganize a soldier as qualified and join the United States Army. Gao Yigong and other old generals of the Zhongzhen Camp were still commanders and continued to participate in the Anti-Qing War as the United States reorganized army.
In essence, it is to let the Loyal Camp join the United States. In the short term, its generals will be the same as before, as before, but with casualties and retirement, officers and soldiers will be replaced, and the only name of the Loyal Camp is left.
Chapter completed!