In Jinling City, the Shengqi Tower by Mochou Lake is Wan Lei's residence in the south of the Yangtze River. This Shengqi Tower was built in the early Ming Dynasty. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang and General Xu Da played chess here. Xu Da won, and Zhu Yuanzhang took over. This building and Mochou Lake were awarded to Xu Da. Now that the Ming Dynasty has perished, everything has changed.
The Mochou Lake area has elegant scenery and is beside the Qinhuai River. It has been developed on a large scale in the early Ming Dynasty. After more than 30 years of construction, more than a dozen large-scale buildings were built along the lakeside, and there are countless residential buildings. Every day, there is a bustle of traffickers and soldiers. Extraordinary, Wan Lei and his family live here temporarily with the purpose of being close to the grassroots people.
In addition to the two wives Fu Wei and Zhao Xueer who came south with Wan Lei, their two sons also came, and even the students also came south to study. After all, Jinling has always been the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and Jiangnan is a cultural resort. It has a rich cultural heritage and many official and private collections of books, so of course they wanted to take a look.
However, Guan Guan's private collection of books was only one of their pastimes during their free time in the south. They paid more attention to practical learning, and studying the animals and plants brought back by the expedition was the main purpose of their trip.
In fact, the expedition to Nanzhou not only brought back many precious animals, but also brought back some plants. One of them, a plant called eucalyptus, caught Wan Lei's attention. This fast-growing tree is an ideal material for the paper industry. , can be planted in coastal and river island areas.
In addition, this tree also has a significant feature. Its ecological competitiveness is strong and can change the ecological balance of a region in a short period of time. Once introduced on a large scale, the ecosystem will develop in a single direction. In addition, The volatile oil of the eucalyptus tree itself has an insect repellent effect, so there are no insects in the forest and no birds in the sky.
Therefore, although eucalyptus is a tree species with high economic value, it is also a very invasive tree species. Wan Lei is considering whether to introduce it to the Yunnan-Guizhou region as a means of driving away the natives living in the deep mountains and old forests. Various ethnic groups in China who relied on slash-and-burn farming, gathering and hunting were "driven" out of the mountains.
The reason why Wan Lei considered using this damaging move was actually because of a headache. The Fourth Group Army of the Peking Army entered the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau area to fight in early February, but encountered many obstructions. The local tribes relied on the dangerous mountains and favorable geographical location to always gain an advantage. , In the past ten days or so, many officers and soldiers of the Peiping Army have suffered battle losses, which gave Wan Lei a huge headache.
It has to be said that the few tribes in the southwest are really unruly and unruly, especially the chiefs of those tribes. They have always been the local emperors because of the high mountains and the distance between the emperor and the emperor. They not only confront the Central Plains dynasty, but also fight among the tribes over land. Continuously, they will even join forces to invade plain areas. This is really difficult to control and impossible to control.
However, after weighing several times, Wan Lei finally gave up on this plan. After all, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is a limestone landform with insufficient groundwater, and eucalyptus is a water pump. Once introduced on a large scale, it will inevitably seriously harm the local ecology.
Of course, planting eucalyptus can still be introduced in the barren mountains along the coast of Jiangnan with high precipitation. For example, in Guangdong, Guangxi and Qiongzhou Island, planting eucalyptus can not only prevent wind and improve the soil of coastal saline mountains, but can also be used to extract eucalyptus oil, which has inhibitory effects. Toadstools can be used as medicine or as a preservative, making them a treasure for the whole body.
The biological invasion law was abandoned, and Wan Lei had no choice but to order the Peiping army to move forward step by step, using a method of equal emphasis on suppression and appeasement. On the one hand, he tried to find ways to win over and disintegrate the local tribes, while on the other hand, he built fortresses and wire fences to build defense lines, advancing bit by bit, without stopping. The land is compressing and encroaching on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.
Although it is time-consuming and laborious to work step by step, there is no other way. Wan Lei will comfort the tribesmen who voluntarily surrender, move them out of the mountains, disperse them, resettle them in the plains, and make them citizens as soon as possible; as for those who are unwilling to surrender Those who resist will be killed one after another. They would rather attack them with ruthless force than leave any hidden dangers behind.
Under the guidance of the military thought of equal emphasis on suppression and appeasement, the Peiping Army will begin a round of frenzy against thieves, just like the tactics used by the Second Army in the Northeast. It will carry out large-scale attacks on tribes that refuse to surrender and come out of the mountains. In short, the purpose of the genocide is to reduce the population of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to a hundred thousand and eliminate all possibilities of rebellion.
This large-scale killing seems very cruel, but it has nothing to do with national oppression, nor is it a genocide. It is just a kind of shock to those who refuse to surrender, and it is also an expansion of civilization versus barbarism. In summary Just one sentence: Those who follow the Republic of China will prosper, and those who go against it will perish.
And this kind of rebelliousness in Shunchang is not only reflected in the minority tribes in the southwest, but also in other areas. Wan Lei never believes that the world can be conquered by virtue and justice alone. Only with a gun in one hand and a scale in the other can the world be conquered. The world surrenders under the light of Chinese civilization.
"The country of Eastern Women, a different breed of Western Qiang, where the female is the king, is adjacent to Maozhou, with more than eighty cities." Early that morning, Zhao Xueer ran to Wan Lei's study with a manuscript and excitedly Said: "Brother, look, the Kingdom of Women is actually real!"
"Of course it's true. There are still some tribes hiding in deep mountains and valleys in northern Sichuan. In these tribes, men do not marry and women do not marry, and they live a walking marriage life. This is just a remnant of a matriarchal society, and there is nothing strange about it." Wan However, Lei said nonchalantly that in order to pacify the southwest region, he often sent elite loyal guards to find out the details, and he also had a general understanding of the customs of various ethnic groups in the southwest.
Of course, Wan Lei does not want to simply evaluate the quality of these customs. As long as they do not conflict with the laws of the Republic of China, he does not bother to care. Of course, with the advancement of the Peking Army, these tribes will be taken out of the mountains sooner or later. Scattered into areas where Han people live, these weird etiquette and customs will disappear sooner or later as sinicization progresses.
"A woman can be a king and have a higher status than a man. This, this is incredible." Zhao Xueer was still very excited, "I didn't believe it when I first heard Sister Zhang talk about it, but after reading this old volume Tang Shu, I found out that it is really true!"
"There are so many incredible things. Don't let it be strange. You may have never seen the hanging coffins of the Bo people. That is called magic. However, the Bo people are the most difficult tribe to subdue. The Duzhang barbarians who raged in Sichuan last year are the Bo people. A branch of the Chinese people, these people are entrenched at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan. They are very arrogant and are the formidable enemies of our Peking Army!"
"You always want to eliminate this and that, and you don't think of ways to appease them. Of course they won't accept it." Zhao Xueer said flatly.
"It's not that I don't appease, it's just that the people I appease are ordinary people, not the clan leaders who want to be hereditary, and those guys who want to be local emperors, I will kill them one by one on sight." Wan Lei said sternly.