The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 795 The greatest motivation for colonization is robbery.

Kitagazu, San Francisco.

This name was given to him by Mo Zibu.

Although San Francisco and Melbourne were discovered together at that time, there is no story that the Chinese first called San Francisco "Gold Mountain," and then Melbourne was discovered with a large gold mine and was called "Gold Mountain," while San Francisco was called "San Francisco."

But the emperor still maintained his perverse sense of humor, calling San Francisco "San Francisco" and Melbourne "Gold Mountain" because San Francisco was discovered seven or eight months earlier.

Therefore, San Francisco, which was born from the gold mines and can only be called a town at present, is not old at all, but very new.

"The King is coming, the King is coming!"

"Long live the King! Long live the King!"

As soon as the nineteen-year-old Prince Moshu Zhen of Edo disembarked, he heard a deafening roar of cheers.

He looked up and saw that the San Francisco pier was packed with people, at least five or six thousand Chinese waving their hands, cheering loudly at him, and some were even bowing down.

In fact, humans are animals that greatly need social organization, and most people have some degree of imperial complex.

Therefore, even in later generations, there are still many people who miss the kings, dukes, and so on of the feudal era.

It's not that they were all base, but rather that the feudal era was an era with a relatively clear system of rights and responsibilities.

How society should operate, who it should revolve around, and who bears primary and secondary responsibility when something goes wrong—all these are very clear.

The monarchs, in particular, bore the responsibility with their heads, and even the lives of their entire families and clans, a responsibility far greater than that of politicians in many later countries.

In this situation, even though the lowest-ranking people are like cattle and horses, they clearly know what they are supposed to do and what they will get in return.

This yearning for the feudal system of power and responsibility is most evident in Europe and America, as well as in places ravaged by the false democracy of Western elections.

Because most politicians in the era of elections are irresponsible; they gain power through elections without taking responsibility.

Because you were the ones who told you to vote for me, you hold the precious votes, and the responsibility lies with you.

While the people seem to have a choice, in reality, the option is either to choose chocolate-flavored poop or poop-flavored chocolate.

In this world, only the Chinese people basically do not miss the feudal era, or more accurately, they do not miss the feudal era's governance model, nor do they miss any noble lords. Their pursuit of humanistic values ​​surpasses that of the rest of the world, placing them in a unique position.

This situation is largely attributable to the Manchu Qing dynasty.

It was the Qing dynasty, with its utter lack of morals and disgusting behavior, that successfully dispelled the illusions of the vast majority of Chinese people about the feudal system, and made them realize the extent to which this model of power and responsibility in feudal society could harm the country and its people.

At this time, the people of the Great Yu Dynasty had not yet witnessed the disgusting scene of the late-stage cancer of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, nor had they suffered such hardships, so they still had a good impression of the emperor and the king.

Mo Zhouzhen's arrival brought joy to so many people because they felt that with the arrival of the Prince of Edo, they finally had a pillar of support in this place thousands of miles away from their homeland.

If His Majesty is willing to send even his most beloved son here, then it proves that the court will not abandon this place.

The saying "where my heart finds peace is my home" probably describes this feeling.

Mo Zhouzhen was well aware of the people's mentality, and his palace was full of talented officials.

Therefore, Mo Zhouzhen did not wait for the large ship to dock before disembarking. Instead, he made sure that a small boat that could carry more than a dozen people was lowered into the large ship. He then disembarked in the undulating waves before the large ship arrived.

"Citizens of the Empire, present your certificates and let me see your achievements."

Mo Zhouzhen took out a small red book with a cover made of relatively precious vulcanized rubber and an embedded piece of glass.

At this time, as European Enlightenment ideas continued to spread eastward, they perfectly merged with the ideas of the Hundred Schools of Thought in China, such as the people being more important than the ruler and the ideal of universal harmony, and spread very widely.

Even the terms "empire," "citizen," "national," and "people" were translated by Mo Zibu.

Of course, what Mo Zhouzhen was holding up was not a citizen's certificate; our Great Emperor Mo is not so eager to seek death.

This thing is actually a gun license.

In the present-day Great Yu, throughout the land of China, long spears are still prohibited from being carried openly in towns, and it is also forbidden for three or more men to wander around the countryside with long spears.

For activities such as hunting, it is necessary to report to the local patrol station in advance.

Short guns, primarily handguns, no more than 30 centimeters long with barrels no more than 20 centimeters long, fall into a gray area. You can buy a few and carry them with you, but the law has never stated that it is legal to possess such a thing.

As long as you keep a low profile when buying and selling, no one will care. In the countryside, you can wear it on your waist and no one will object. In towns, as long as you don't take your gun out of its holster or carry lead bullet bags and gunpowder bags, no one will care.

This is a lesson learned the hard way. Over the years, there have been dozens or even hundreds of cases of people from Dayu being assassinated at long range with long spears due to various conflicts.

Four years ago, Song Jun, the eldest son of Song Jun, a Hakka nobleman who had once blocked the Qing army at Bawangmiao during the Battle of Beihe, was shot to death in Nanjing from 300 meters away by a rifled gun because of a minor conflict.

Since then, anyone caught in town, whether holding or carrying a spear, has been exiled.

In order not to dampen the martial spirit of the people, maintain the fighting capacity of the Han Chinese settlers, and also to reward these people, the imperial court stipulated:

Those who are willing to register their household in Rinan (South Vietnam), Taiping (Siam), Xinglong (Malay Peninsula) and have been settled there for more than ten years.

Those who have settled in the four provinces of Anxi, Nanyang Hanchuan (lower Myanmar), Nanji (Java Island), and Jiaqing (Kalimantan Island) for five years.

Those who have settled in Da Zhanzhou (Australia), Xiao Zhanzhou (New Zealand), Bei Hezhou (North America), Mingzhu Island (Hawaii) for three years will be issued a gun license.

With this gun license, one can freely possess firearms outside of China, freely possess short guns within China, and report and possess long guns when entering small towns, but not carry them on one's person in large cities.

After nearly ten years of implementation, a gun license has become the standard symbol for determining whether someone is a real man within Dayu County.

Many noble children even deliberately chose to serve three years in places like Dazhanzhou in order to obtain a gun license.

Therefore, when Mo Zhouzhen took out his gun license, cheers erupted on the dock. Most people took out their own gun licenses and waved them vigorously, while a few who had set sail later were ashamed and blushed.

"My sons, we are all His Majesty's sons. Please join me in kowtowing to our sovereign father who granted us the right to mine gold!"

Mo Zhouzhen is like a twin to his fourth brother, Mo Zhouzhe.

The fourth son inherited Mo Zibu's decisiveness and ruthlessness, while the fifth son, Mo Zhouzhen, learned Emperor Mo's bewitching succubus-like constitution.

After kowtowing, Mo Zhouzhen stood up laughing and faced the thousands of Han men on the dock once again, saying, "Now, we are all brothers, because we are all the sons of our sovereign."

Cheers erupted again, and Mo Zhouzhen took a pickaxe from a guard. He walked to the small boat that had just brought him ashore, and amidst gasps, he raised the pickaxe high, aiming it at the gunwale.

One, one, another.

The loud thud seemed to strike the hearts of thousands of people at the San Francisco harbor.

Finally, Mo Zhouzhen smashed a large hole in the hull, and the waves poured seawater into the cabin through the hole.

At this moment, Mo Zhouzhen turned around and raised the pickaxe in his hand.

"Warriors, compatriots, this is now Mo Zhouzhen's hometown! We won't go back until we've made something of ourselves!" "Long live! Long live! Long live!"

A shout of "Long live the Emperor!" suddenly rang out from the crowd. Of course, everyone knew that this did not mean they wanted to support Mo Zhouzhen's ascension to the throne, but rather represented an emotion of extreme joy.

"Your Majesty, please enter the city!"

"Your Majesty, please enter the city!"

After shouts of "Long live the Emperor!" were heard, everyone on the dock made way for him, and they knelt on both sides willingly to invite Mo Zhouzhen into the city.

Mo Zhouzhen also shed tears of joy, because he knew very well that being a king in Beihezhou was completely different from being a king in Nanyang.

Nanyang, it can be said that it was conquered by my father Mo Zibu with his sword and spear. No matter who from the land of China goes to Nanyang to make a fortune, he will always express his gratitude to His Majesty for his great kindness.

Without Emperor Mozibu, the fate of Chinese people venturing to Southeast Asia would have been entirely different.

However, Beihezhou was different. Beihezhou was created by the settlers themselves. The imperial court only provided ships for crossing the sea, and even that was charged.

Many people didn't want to leave their hometowns, but were forced to do so by the government's policies.

From the emperor's and the court's perspective, this kind of leaving one's hometown was paving the way for future generations, like planting trees for future generations to enjoy the shade. Besides, since you're going to be poor in your hometown anyway, why not come out and take a chance?

But for many ordinary people, it's better to live a miserable life than to die.

Colonization, colonization, that's something you have to risk your life for. Twenty percent die on the road, and one or two percent die far from home. It's not a made-up story.

So much so that in Beihezhou, any settler or gold prospector you randomly pick has a story about being forced by corrupt officials and powerful landlords to buy their land back home, leaving them with no choice but to go to sea with tears and sweat.

Although these stories contain a great deal of artistic embellishment, when many people make them up, it is still easy for them to form a collective memory.

Therefore, Mo Zhouzhen was very smart. Instead of being aloof, he chose a path of sharing weal and woe with these people.

. . . .

As it turns out, there are only mistakes in doing things, not mistakes in choosing names.

The goldfields near San Francisco are indeed very rich, deserving of the name "Gold Mountain." Mo Zhouzhen was stunned by the gold stored inside the San Francisco garrison headquarters as soon as he entered it.

This San Francisco garrison office was actually an office of the Reconstruction Bank Gold Administration in this location.

Because the Great Yu Dynasty still insists that silver dollars are the only circulating currency, gold and silver are not allowed to circulate directly in the market as currency. They must be minted into silver dollars by the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works before they can be used.

Therefore, Mozibu directly established a Gold Management Bureau within the Revival Bank, which assumed the responsibilities of a central bank. The final destination of precious metals such as gold and silver could only be the Management Bureau.

While it's impossible to block all sources, it has indeed managed to ensure that at least 70% of newly mined or traded gold and silver enters the management of the Fu-Hsing Bank.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects. According to the regulations of Your Majesty and the court, the administration of San Francisco by the Gold Bureau shall end hereto today. All responsibilities except for this one shall be handed over to Your Majesty."

The Gold Administration Bureau of the Revival Bank was a very special department. It was originally established by drawing personnel from the Imperial Transport Office.

Therefore, whether they were officials or armed personnel from the Bureau of Administration, they were all government officials, not simply employees of the Fuxing Company.

Mo Zhouzhen took the key and seal, counted the amount in the vault which was almost blinding him and contained at least 35,000 taels of gold, and then immediately left.

Subsequently, Mo Zhouzhen summoned all the prominent figures in San Francisco.

Like other major cities in Northern California such as Warmwater Harbor (Vancouver), Sunriseburg (Seattle), and Jingning City (Portland), San Francisco's ethnic composition is also in danger of exceeding a critical point.

Mo Zhouzhen could clearly distinguish among the seventeen prominent figures of San Francisco who were offered seats after their audience.

Eight of them were Japanese from four provinces: Horai Province (Kyushu and Shikoku), Eishu Province (western part of the main island of Japan), Asahi Province (central part of the main island of Japan), and Fusang Province (eastern part of the main island of Japan).

One was a Goryeo person from Silla Province (southern part of the peninsula).

The three are people of various ethnic groups from Northeast China.

Only five of them were Han Chinese from the Central Plains.

Although these people are currently wholeheartedly identifying themselves as Han Chinese and their cultural customs are converging, they have only been together for less than twenty years, and many inherent differences are still quite obvious.

If the proportion of Han Chinese continues to decline like this, it's not impossible that Beihezhou will become a strange hybrid in the future.

'We must increase the proportion of Han people, otherwise the centrifugal force will gradually increase over time,' Mo Zhouzhen thought to himself. He also understood why his father insisted on giving him six more beauties before he left.

Behind these beauties are prominent local cultural families in China. They may not be good at much else, but they are not only good at recruiting people, they are extremely good at it.

Mo Laowu is unaware that his elder brother, the Crown Prince, is also seeking sponsorship for him. Upon seeing this situation, he immediately realized that now is not the time to attack New Spain. The priority should be to quickly bring people over and, within a year, transport at least 300,000 Han Chinese to Beihezhou.

“Your Majesty, San Francisco now has a population of over 60,000, and they are mostly men. If you give the order, we can immediately organize at least 5,000 people.”

The owner of a large gold mine, from the Sendai Domain, now called Itachi Province, spoke up.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the five hundred elite Sauron cavalry are ready." King Shenghai of Sauron, whose accent was almost nonexistent, said with some eagerness.

There's a rumor circulating in Dayu that the Jurchens were actually Han Chinese whose ancestors had become barbarians, and that the Jurchen surname Wanyan is actually the same as the Han Chinese word for "king".

The Wanyan family were actually descendants of the Bohai Wang clan, a prominent Han Chinese family. As a result, many ethnic groups in Northeast China adopted the surname Wang.

Mo Zhouzhen's heart stirred. These Solon people were still very reliable because they were very grateful to Dayu.

Although the Great Yu and the Manchu Qing both recruited them from the old forests of Northeast China and sent them to various places to serve as soldiers, their starting points were quite different.

While the Qing dynasty employed the Solon people to utilize their bravery, there was also a hidden agenda: to prevent the Solon people from imitating their ancestors.

Therefore, the Manchu Qing dynasty withdrew all the able-bodied Solon people, leaving only women and children in the old forests of Northeast China, and then recruited some Han Chinese to work as tenant farmers, guaranteeing only the lowest quality of food.

This resulted in many Solon people being conscripted and never returning home, never seeing their parents, wives, and children again. Their parents, wives, and children were also not doing well back in their hometown.

It would be strange if he didn't have some thoughts about it.

But the Dayu were different; they simply wanted to use their military force to relocate them from the Northeast and Outer Northeast, so as to prevent them from causing trouble in the old forests.

Therefore, conscription was often carried out by tribe, with adults and children going together, which was much more acceptable.

Moreover, the Solon people in Dayu either went to the four provinces of Anxi or to Beihezhou, unlike the Manchus who threw them into the rainforests of Southeast Asia and simply killed them.

Seeing that Mo Zhouzhen hesitated slightly, Wang Shenghai immediately explained, "Your Majesty, there are no women in this place, so we can't keep people here!"

My soldiers all want to return to Wenshui Port. We must keep them here first so that we can have cavalry to protect us when dealing with the Spanish.

Moreover, I've also learned that three Jurchen people from Hezhou nearby have been mining gold here for hundreds of years. Taking them down would be far better than mining it ourselves.”

'Hoo!' Mo Zhouzhen took a deep breath. It seems this is the intensity of the front line of colonization. No business is as profitable as a business with no capital. If we want to see San Francisco, we have to start with the Hezhou Jurchens.

(End of this chapter)