Volume 4 is in the ascendant Chapter 447: Yizhou Model
Over the past year, the Yizhou Governor's Office led by Guan Ning and Lu Xun has achieved remarkable results. Not only have most of the Dongyu tribes accepted the Governor's Office, many Dongyu people have begun to live in the Chu city of Yizhou, and have been employed to receive wages in exchange for food and other goods. In addition, several tribes, large and small, have completely incorporated into the Chu nationality!
On the same day that Gan Ning arrived in Tanzhou, Guan Ning, on behalf of the King of Chu and the State of Chu, together with a tribe that had just agreed to submit completely, erected the "Chu Monument".
That is the ceremony of complete incorporation into the State of Chu. At that time, a stone tablet with the word "Chu" will be erected in the center of the tribe's territory. At the same time, on the front , it will be engraved that the State of Chu will unconditionally treat all people in the tribe the same as any other people in any part of the State of Chu, and the eight strategies for establishing the country will be engraved...
On the back of the stone tablet are densely engraved the names of all the people in the tribe.
It can be seen that many of the people who came forward to carve their names had wounds on their bodies, as if they had experienced a battle not long ago?
Of course, Guan Ning would never violently annex anyone just for the sake of plunder, but...
After accepting Chuxue, the foundation of the Dongyu people's very primitive tribal slavery theory was greatly impacted. Especially after the lower-level slaves began to question the rationality of their slavery, some reactionary tribal leaders began to resist Chuxue.
The Governor's Office remained restrained in the face of these tribes that dared to use violence to resist civilization, and in the early stages simply condemned them.
However, once internal unrest breaks out, the State of Chu will provide assistance out of humanitarianism, and afterwards respect the opinions of the vast majority of tribal members and incorporate them into the State of Chu along with their territory... This is reasonable no matter how you look at it, right?
It symbolizes the process of being incorporated into the State of Chu, which is reasonable, rational and legal. Even if someone wants to have some bad ideas countless years later, there is definite legal evidence here.
Because of the tribe's surrender and the development of unowned land that the Dongyu people had previously been unable to develop, nearly half of Yizhou was now the direct territory of the Chu State.
Encouraged by the Chu State's policies, tens of thousands of Han people have come to Yizhou to open up wasteland.
Some of them were refugees who came to Iju for the tax exemption, exemption from military service, and subsidy policies after immigrating to Iju, and some were government settlements and official workshops that were established for a limited period of service, as well as branches sent by aristocratic families who signed development agreements with the court...
This allowed the culture of Chu to take root quickly in Yizhou. Even the tribes that had not yet been formally incorporated into Chu had a high sense of identity with Chu. Previous bad habits such as human sacrifice were resisted from the bottom up after being "Chuized".
However, these remaining tribal leaders no longer dared to act rashly and could only watch as their tribesmen gradually became alienated.
Especially the governor, Guan Ning, who seemed to be "touching porcelain", moved to different stubborn tribes every month, and gave lectures in person with the help of translators, welcoming everyone to attend. Recently, Guan Ning even learned some simple Dongyu language...
Moreover, when Guan Ning was in Yizhou, he also kept in mind the precautions that Bai Tu had specifically entrusted to him before leaving.
If the Dongyu people wanted to stick together as a tribe, there was no need to force them to join the Chu State. Instead, they could be allowed to continue to maintain the tribal system, and then rescued when they were completely disappointed with the tribe...
These Dongyu people have no concept of nation or country, but if they are forced with brute force, it will instead stimulate their racial consciousness.
It seems that the Han people's national consciousness was budding when they were bullied by the Huns who moved south, but the Hun Empire was soon dismembered and expelled.
Of course, there are only tens of thousands of Dongyu in total. If someone is really ruthless, it would not be difficult to kill them all - since the civil war in Chinese civilization, the death toll in a larger battle is often more than this.
However, Guan Ning would not do this, and Bai Tu would not allow anyone to do this.
Otherwise, how could the rising "Chu Learning" survive? How could it convince others to believe in it? For the sake of Yizhou, it would undermine its own foundation?
On the contrary, as long as we hold on to the "freedom of education" and continue to instill "Chu learning" into the other side...
A civilization like Dongyu, which had too little surplus value and even an imperfect slavery system due to its productivity problems, would collapse on its own and then be integrated into the State of Chu under the influence of "Chu Learning" and the rapid increase in productivity in a short period of time.
Especially now that there is a stable passenger ship service between Yizhou and Kuaiji once a month, representatives of the Dongyu people can also go to the mainland of Chu to study, allowing Chu learning to be introduced into Yizhou more directly.
To achieve these goals, Guan Ning, who adheres to the way of a gentleman, is undoubtedly one of the most suitable people.
With the Chu army led by Lu Xun stationed there, Chu was destined to have an absolute advantage in terms of absolute strength in Yizhou. As the governor of education, Guan Ning only needed to exercise education with the utmost sincerity and impartiality...
In normal times, Guan Ning treated the migrant Chu people equally, regardless of whether they were refugees, officials, or noble families, and rewarded or punished them.
Especially when it came to cases where the people of Chu regarded themselves as a superior state and bullied the people of Dongyu, Guan Ning handled the matter impartially and at the same time made it known to the public.
For example, last year there was even an incident in which a foreman of a private workshop raped and killed several young girls from Dongyu. Many Dongyu people reported the incident to the Governor's Office. When Guan Ning learned about it, the foreman had already fled to the ship back to the mainland of Chu for fear of crime. He had been away from the port for half a day, but Guan Ning still ordered a naval speedboat to pursue him. He was caught halfway and publicly executed in Yizhou.
Afterwards, the wealthy family that owned the workshop was also disqualified from assisting in development by the State of Chu, and the crew members who illegally allowed people on board were also held accountable, using practical actions to strongly support Guan Ning.
On the other hand, the Dongyu people attacked the Chu people... Few people dared to do such a thing, but there were some. After all, so many people came into contact with each other, and their civilizations were very different. It was naturally impossible for them to all live in harmony. For this, Guan Ning pronounced them guilty and punished them, and then executed them after teaching them a lesson!
That is why there was a later record in "History of Chu" that Guan Ning lived in Yizhou and converted the Yi people to Xia in five years.
It was precisely because of the example of Yizhou that Gan Ning knew not to rush when he first arrived in Tanzhou...
Compared with the Dongyu people, the civilization of the Yamato people was more advanced. Their productivity had already transitioned from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, and their slavery system was already relatively mature.
In fact, according to Gan Ning's idea, why must we expand the territory? Isn't Chu short of labor now?
For these barbarians, it is better to intimidate their rulers, and then use the control over their rulers, as well as the strong productivity and military strength of the Chu State, to continuously squeeze their grassroots manpower and resources at a lower cost...
They do not have to be treated as Chu people, and even if there is resistance, they can use their own rulers to suppress it without putting themselves in danger.
Gan Ning also mentioned this idea to Bai Tu in private, but Bai Tu kept nagging him for two hours, and at one point he wanted to force him to retake the Chuxue course...
On the one hand, he was very annoyed, on the other hand... Gan Ning was just thinking about it casually and saying it casually. Since Bai Tu strongly resisted, Gan Ning did not mention the matter again.
Originally, he only discussed it with Bai Tu in private. On the surface, Gan Ning, as the commander-in-chief of the navy, was a model of Chu studies.
However, after staying in Tanzhou for a month, Gan Ning received more and more information, and even the Navy Commander could no longer sit still...
Tanzhou, is it so big?
Although the population is much larger than that of the Dongyi people, it is estimated that, excluding the northernmost Ezo, the population of the other three islands will not exceed 300,000, which is less than that of a large county. In other words...
"Since there are still large tracts of unowned land, I, the Great Chu, will develop it for you!"
Gan Ning decided to gather all the small countries around him to help them notarize and divide the tribe land on the spot...
