Later generations of Chinese history recorded: "Dong Shuheng used an article to call (fool) hundreds of thousands of Chinese youth to go to the Western Regions, creating a miracle of immigration in Chinese history!"
Wei Yuxiang, who wrote this article, also became famous in one fell swoop and became a celebrity in the ideological and cultural circles as an official.
The "Garrison Spirit" was widely disseminated and became the creed of successive border guards.
Not only among soldiers, but also in all walks of life began to learn the "garrison spirit".
Dong Shuheng raised this study to a political level. He felt that more values should be integrated into the lives of Chinese people to enrich the Chinese spirit.
The reform measures that Dong Shuheng has been taking are mostly political, economic, and spiritual reforms, but he has never tried them.
This incident made Dong Shuheng realize that he could dig out new things from the traditional Chinese spirit.
Summarizing it and putting it into the current cultural reform can also promote the current system reform carried out across the country.
What Dong Shuheng has done most recently is not to promote the new government.
He focused his main energy on resolving land conflicts.
At the end of the feudal dynasty in ancient China, land conflicts inevitably occurred.
Dong Shuheng has studied the current situation of the Manchus and Qing Dynasties, and he feels that the main contradiction of the Manchus and Qing Dynasties is still the land issue.
Foreign forces currently do not have that great influence on China. After the Chinese government came to power, the import of opium was blocked, and the vast inland areas were not opened. Coastal ports became the only external windows.
Therefore, foreign forces are not yet qualified to become China's main contradiction.
The biggest problem in China is still the land issue.
Because of the emergence of Dong Shuheng, the impact of the Taiping War on China's population was minimized. The current population of China is still close to 400 million, and this number is still growing.
Although the area of cultivated land during the Manchu and Qing dynasties reached a historical high, and new high-yielding crops were widely promoted, this was not enough to alleviate land conflicts.
Because the population is growing much faster than the increase in food production. The population of 400 million is still far more than any dynasty in Chinese history.
Dong Shuheng has a long way to go if he wants to prepare to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people.
Dong Shuheng did not confiscate the land of the landlords, because after redistributing the land, his immigration policy could not be carried out. However, he issued a decree to limit land rent, and at the same time changed the agricultural tax to levy grain, and set up granaries in various places.
Since Zhang Juzheng's "One Whip Law" reformed agricultural taxes in the Ming Dynasty, people's agricultural taxes have been changed to payment of silver taels, which forced the people to accept secondary exploitation and accelerated the bankruptcy of homesteaders.
The current Chinese government has reformed the commercial tax system. Most of the silver in the national treasury is obtained from commercial taxes, and there are many state-owned enterprises in China. There are many ways to return silver to the government, plus the currency reform that China is preparing to launch
, now Dong Shuheng is not worried about running out of money.
Therefore, there is no need to take away from agricultural taxes. Changing agricultural taxes to public grains can also concentrate the surplus grains in the hands of common people and landlords, allowing the government to control more resources to regulate the market.
China's commercial tax was not higher than that of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, but it was more detailed. The commercial tax system of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties was too rough, and power was in the hands of local governments, which could easily lead to collusion between officials and businessmen. Ordinary small businessmen were taxed heavily.
There are layers of exploitation, but those big businessmen with backgrounds can openly evade taxes.
China's commercial tax system is a vertical management model, which is the so-called national tax. All taxes belong to the state, and local finances obtain funds from the state through budgets.
Thanks to the perfect banking system, China was able to recover all its financial rights, and the central government's control over local governments exceeded all periods in history.
During the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, if this was done, the imperial court could be exhausted just by the allocation of funds.
China entrusts taxation work to the State Administration of Taxation under the Ministry of Finance.
The State Administration of Taxation has established a vertical tax system across the country. The management of tax authorities is completely vertical and has nothing to do with local governments.
The tax authorities even have their own law enforcement agency - the tax police team. These tax police officers are all retired from the army and their combat effectiveness is not weak at all.
The tax authorities uniformly manage tax collection work in various places, but they do not care about money. Taxation is uniformly managed by the Development Bank.
At the same time, the profits of state-owned enterprises, tariffs, transfer fees for resources such as mines and forests, and transfer fees for state-owned land, etc. are all managed by the Development Bank. In addition, the Development Bank is also responsible for keeping the reserves of various commercial banks.
This constitutes the main source of revenue for the Chinese government.
Who is the richest person in China now? Then it must be the Renaissance Bank. However, the Renaissance Bank does not have the power to conduct business activities. It is essentially a government agency.
Then, after the annual budget is released, it is also compiled by the Ministry of Finance and handed over to the Development Bank for unified allocation. The Development Bank has branches in various places. The money for local government budgets comes from here, including the salaries of officials.
The account is transferred to their respective salary accounts in commercial banks.
Budget execution regulators are responsible for following up on the use of these budgets.
Moreover, Dong Shuheng stipulated that the budget of each locality must be published in the local newspaper or posted on a list to the people at the beginning of the year.
This reduces the possibility of corruption in local government to the greatest extent.
For example, the local government plans to build a road this year. How much money the government has allocated must be announced at the beginning of the year. People who hope that the road will be built will definitely pay attention to it. Then the local government wants to cut corners and save the money allocated.
If it is dropped, then we have to ask these people if they are willing.
This kind of budget system can also control government expenditures. For example, if I don’t have much money now, I can tell the local government in advance that everyone will tighten their budget this year.
In addition to the agricultural tax reform, there are also restrictions on land rents for landlords and a floating land rent policy. It is stipulated that all public grains should be handed over by the land owners. The proportion of public grains is one-tenth of the harvest. Every year, the tax authorities will
Evaluate local harvests and determine the amount of public grain paid per acre of land.
At the same time, the new land policy also stipulated that land rent should not exceed 30%. In addition to 10% of the public grain turned over, the landlord could keep 20% of the harvest.
A temporary law was also issued at the same time. This law is called the "Tweet Order" on immigration.
It stipulates that if a family has many children, only two of them can stay in the local area, and the remaining children must obey the arrangements of the government's immigration bureau and be resettled in other places.
Of course, there are also preferential policies here, that is, immigrants resettled by the government will be allocated land in addition to being arranged to work on farms in China.
Ordinary people generally welcome it, because the land at home is small, and many people become poorer as they live longer. This is because the land at home is too small, and there is not enough land to divide it among several sons.
Now the state is helping the remaining sons to start their own businesses and help the family branch out. That is a great thing!
This policy targets everyone, not just ordinary people, but also landlords. Even officials of the Renaissance Army and even Dong Shuheng himself must abide by this rule.
Dong Shuheng did not want the Central Plains of China to continue to be over-exploited due to overpopulation and the environment to gradually deteriorate. The surrounding areas could not be effectively occupied due to the lack of permanent population.
The number of people Dong Shuheng planned to relocate in 1855 would reach 5 million, including 2 million people who would move outside the Pass due to the reconstruction of Heze. Another million people would move to the Western Regions to enrich the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.
and the Balkhash Lake region.
One million people will migrate to the Black Dragon and Far East regions, and another million people will migrate to South America, North America and Southeast Asia respectively.
Before the end of 1955, Dong Shuheng will focus on strengthening China's farm construction in the Nanyang region, strengthening the military strength of the farm, and allowing the farm to expand to inland areas.
Dong Shuheng had already vaguely realized that China's golden period of development in Southeast Asia was about to pass.
After the Crimean War, Britain and France turned around and were bound to curb China's development in the Southeast Asia region. By then, Southeast Asia might have become a battlefield.
Britain and France began to carve up the Southeast Asia long before the Crimean War. Britain was in the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, and France was in Vietnam. Indonesia was still in the hands of the Netherlands, but the Netherlands was the younger brother of the British.
There is also a declining Spain that is still struggling to hold on in the Philippines and the islands of the South Pacific.
Dong Shuheng had already chosen a breakthrough point to break the situation, but before that, Britain and France must admit that they have the qualifications to participate in the ocean hegemony.
In the European maritime hegemony circle, new qualifications are obtained by defeating an established power.
The two sites in North America and Dong Shutong in South America are still in a low-key stage. The most important thing now is to accumulate manpower.
West Coast Company in San Francisco and Changjiang Security Group in Los Angeles are both quietly developing their own capabilities.
The West Coast Company purchased a large number of properties in San Francisco and opened farms, industrial and mining enterprises. Unknowingly, it already had hundreds of thousands of people on hand. You must know that the permanent population of San Francisco at this time was only tens of thousands. Changes in the number of people
, quantitative changes will inevitably lead to qualitative changes.
Unknowingly, many Chinese shops opened on the streets of San Francisco, and more and more Chinese people walked on the streets. Of course, more Chinese were still working in factories, mines and farms outside the city, and they formed a network of people.
Small settlement.
The Yangtze River Mercenary Group will take some jobs to Mexico in Los Angeles. They will quietly spread their tentacles deep into Mexico.
They also took control of an island off the coast of Los Angeles as a base for their supply fleet and a training base for mercenaries. This is a completely lawless place.
Hua Er feels very comfortable here. If it weren't for the presence of manager Zhang Guangshun, Hua Er feels like he is the king here.
Over the past year, Yangtze Security has gradually eliminated the big families in the Los Angeles area by wooing one over and suppressing the other.
In the western region, the U.S. government's control is very weak, and those who really control the place are the big families in this place.
Because of the strength behind him, Wall has now joined the ranks of the local upper class in Los Angeles. He was also elected as a state legislator in California and is considered a strong contender for governor.
These also provide cover for the local development of Yangtze River Security.
Yangtze Security extended its tentacles into Mexico for the purpose of training troops.
Because the Mexican government is weak, the big local families and big capitalists in Mexico control the place, just like warlords. There are often fights between them, just like the Mexican gangs in later generations, and their intensity is comparable to war.
In such an environment, Yangtze Security can take action freely.
They are all employed by their employers, and their employers will naturally help settle matters after the war. All they have to do is fight, and whatever they seize after the fight will belong to Yangtze Security. What those employers want is the territory.
Yangtze Security not only steals money, but every time they conquer a land, they even move local factories. All these things are transported to the Chinese settlements in Los Angeles to develop local production and continuously enhance the strength of the Chinese in the local area.
Zhang Guangshun thinks this development model is good, so he has not expanded to Central and South America yet.
He wanted to use this method to control Los Angeles first, so that Yangtze Security would have a stable development base.
For business activities in Mexico, the reputation of Yangtze River Security can be spread through the Spanish in Mexico. At that time, the local forces in Central and South America will naturally find Yangtze River Security.
In San Francisco, the West Coast Company has been seeking California citizenship for Chinese people. Although this matter has encountered huge resistance. But as the number of Chinese in California increases, the West Coast Company becomes stronger and stronger, and will soon surpass the local
power.
At that time, the Chinese will be able to dominate the political development of California. If they join them and have a reliable military force, then this place will become an independent kingdom for the Chinese.
In South America, Dong Shutong's development is low-key and rapid.
They say they are low-key because Dong Shutong did not expand to several coastal cities controlled by whites on the western coast.
To say they were fast, Dong Shutong took the Huning Lake area as the center and quickly developed its power to the Ukaria River Basin and the Enne River Basin in the west, and its territory continued to expand. The rain forest area in the east was full of space for their development.
Dong Shutong used the Indian identity of the Zhumu family to continuously annex the surrounding Indian forces through both carrot and stick methods, and then established local farms. These farms would house the immigrated Han people and the annexed Indians.
For more than a year, Cai Qiming used his status as China's minister in South America to establish good relations with many senior officials in Peru. Especially Peruvian Foreign Minister Mario.
The Mario family's fleet was chartered to carry out trade in China. By reselling Chinese products to South America, the Mario family made a lot of money.
It was also very convenient for Chinese merchant ships to dock at Peruvian ports.
Taking advantage of Peru's labor import policy, Chinese ships brought a large number of immigrants. Most of these immigrants were signed away by Dong Shu and the shadow companies they set up.
In two years, a total of nearly 200,000 Chinese people arrived in Peru. This is a huge number in Peru, which has a total population of only more than one million. You must know that there are only a few hundred thousand white people in Peru.
Of course, many of these people do not appear in the public figures, otherwise they would definitely arouse the alarm of the Peruvian government.
After all, with so many Chinese people appearing in the country, there must be smart people in the Peruvian government who have other ideas. You must know that white people in the West have always been very concerned about race.
After these people were smuggled in from the Peruvian port, they crossed the Andes Mountains and were transferred to the Junin area. Then they entered the Chinese farms in the plain rainforest area to the east.
On these farms, Chinese and River Indians lived together.
Dong Shutong tried to gradually assimilate these Indians in this way. Just as Dong Shuheng said in his letter, he must believe in the cultural superiority of the Chinese people.
Compared with the Indians, even the uneducated Chinese enjoy cultural advantages.
Unknowingly, Dong Shutong's Junin tribe had controlled a population of nearly 300,000 people. This already accounted for a large proportion of the total population of Peru.
Moreover, the standing strength of the Huning Division has reached nearly 10,000 people. This army is commanded by Tian Fang, and most of the officers in the army are special forces members who came with Tian Fang.
Ma Chun helped Dong Shutong manage farm and militia affairs.
Using the equipment smuggled in, the Huning Ministry opened some mines to mine copper, silver, iron ore and other mineral resources. They built a new city on the shores of Huning Lake.
Dong Shutong named it "Donghua City".
Zhumu specializes in managing Indian affairs. The relationship between the couple is very good. Since having children, Zhumu has focused more on his family and fully supported his husband in his career.
At least she saw that the Indians were living better and better and becoming more united under the leadership of her husband.
Warriors in the tribe are also willing to obey their husbands' commands.
Among the army of more than 10,000 people in the Shanghai-Ningbu Division, there is an Indian cavalry of nearly 2,000 people. Under the guidance of Chinese instructors, they no longer fight in a scattered manner as before, but have learned tactical formations, etc.
Waiting for things, their equipment is also more sophisticated.
Industrial facilities such as woolen mills, arsenals, and smelting plants were also established in Donghua City. For the first time, the Indians had their own industry.
The wool mill here uses alpaca down, which is of very good quality and is even exported to China. Cashmere products and various minerals are the goods loaded on the fleet when they return.
The arsenal equipment here were all smuggled from China. The Peruvian government will definitely not let these machines fall into the hands of the Indians.
The Indians in western Peru have always been in a state of autonomy, so although the Peruvian government knows a little about what they are doing, it does not know the details. As long as the Junin tribe does not rebel, the Peruvian government will turn a blind eye.
The white population in Peru is too small, and their control over the country is even more loose due to the isolation of the Andes Mountains.
This gave Dong Shutong and others the opportunity to develop in a low-key manner.
As a Han Chinese, Dong Shutong felt that the eastern part of the Andes, with more arable land, was the best place.
When they develop to a certain level, they can easily swallow up the port cities on the western coast in one go.
It cannot be swallowed now, not because it cannot defeat the Peruvian government, but because it would offend the entire white world.
You should know that the British Navy is stationed in the port of Lima.
White people are very disgusted with the indigenous people overthrowing white rule, and they are worried that a chain reaction will occur.
At that time, it is not ruled out that they will unite against Dong Shu and their joint country of Chinese and Indians.
But now the new Chinese government far away on the other side of the Pacific cannot give them any support.
All of this was part of Dong Shuheng's plan. If Dong Shutong had followed his own plan, he would have already occupied Peru.