Chapter 326 The New Han Nationality
After arranging these two major engineering projects, the next step of Li Xiao’s focus is to further immigrate to Taiwan.
Li Xiao came to Taiwan in early November last year. It has been two months since the beginning of January. According to a letter from Shandong Feige, nearly 200,000 refugees have gathered in Shandong.
Li Xiao immediately replied to Chen Houzi, the general manager of Dengzhou City, asking him to send all these refugees to Jeju Island by boat first. He also stipulated that from now on, Jeju Island will be used as a transit station and then his own fleet will be taken to Taiwan Island.
Li Xiao was very pleased to think that he could collect nearly 100,000 refugees every month.
In a year, Li Xiao would have transported more than one million immigrants to Taiwan. In addition, the people who fled privately from Fujian and Guangdong, the population of Taiwan will increase rapidly at a geometric level, the speed of wasteland development will accelerate, and the economy will develop more rapidly.
Li Xiao from later generations knew that in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the bandits would continue to shrink under the joint attack of the government army. If they follow the historical process, Li Zicheng and others would even be forced to flee into the deep mountains and forests of Shangluo Mountain in order to protect themselves. Therefore, this year is a golden year for rapid development and growth for himself.
However, Li Xiao had to seize the time, because at the end of the year, it is very likely that the Qing army in the north would enter the south for the fourth time as in history, and focus on attacking Shandong.
In this case, his plan to transport refugees will have to be interrupted. Therefore, within this year, Li Xiao will speed up and transport as many refugees as possible.
Another month passed quietly, and basically all work on the entire Taiwan Island was on track.
In such a peaceful and stable state, the soldiers of Pingnan Camp also began to get married and get married, and officially settled and established a career on Taiwan Island.
February 28, the 11th year of Chongzhen was the happy day for Shu Lumu Akdan, the former infantry sentry soldier in Manzhou.
Sitting next to the bride wearing a red veil and bright red dress, the groom Shu Lumu Akdan, wearing a bright red wedding dress with a Han-style red wedding crown, was very excited and very moved.
Akdan originally belonged to the Zhenghuang Banner of Manzhou. Like the Erzhen Tantai of Gushan, the Zhenghuang Banner, and belonged to the Kurkha tribe of the East China Sea. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, he followed Tan Tai, broke through the pass from Xifengkou and went south, and captured the Zhenbian Town on the west side of Beijing. Unexpectedly, after only one day of occupation, they were besieged and broken through by Li Xiao's troops from Jintang City to aid the capital.
After Li Xiao captured the border town, he took action to cut off the Qing army commander Tan Tai. This bloody and cruelty was almost changed.
His behavior showed the dark and cruel side of this seemingly heroic and handsome young general, who was hidden deep in his heart.
However, Li Xiao's cruel behavior was extremely effective in deterring the Qing army that had just surrendered. Whether it was the Manchu soldiers, the Mongolian soldiers or the Han soldiers, almost everyone was scared to death, and they were all shattered, and they no longer dared to have the intention of resisting.
Akdan was quite close to Li Xiao at that time and clearly saw how this Ming army general killed Tan Tai alive. Then, with a look of appreciating the artwork, he smiled and looked at Tan Tai's heart beating in his hands, which scared Akdan at that time so much that his legs were trembling and his feces were flowing.
Next, after being forced to cut Tan Tai's body with a knife, Akdan, who was severely attacked by terror and disgust, felt his mind blank and he seemed to have become a walking corpse.
Subsequently, thousands of Qing army prisoners, including Akdan, were forcibly taken to Jintang City for labor reform by Li Xiao. These originally arrogant and domineering Qing army were subdued by Li Xiao's cruel and fierce methods. Along the way, they were as docile as rabbits. No one dared to resist.
After arriving at Jintang City, Akdan was assigned to a dark coal mine for labor reform. Every day, he worked from early morning to night, but his food was only enough to eat. As long as he was not careful in his work, the supervisor's whip hit him like a rainstorm. This dark and humiliating period lasted for more than a year. Several of Akdan's partners died in it, and then the bodies were thrown on the border mountain and allowed to be eaten by the wild dogs.
Because of his hard work, Akdan finally survived this tragic time. At this time, he was no different from a Han miner in terms of appearance and clothing.
Humans are really a strange animal. After being treated so cruelly, Akdan was filled with hatred and anger, but instead gradually calmed down and began to feel more and more resigned to fate.
Next, because of his good performance in labor reform, he was adapted into an auxiliary soldier. After joining the Tiger Army, civil servants in charge of the civil service provided them with high-intensity brainwashing education every day. At this time, Akdan was already quite familiar with Chinese language and became more and more familiar with the various rules and slogans of the Tiger Army until he was familiar with it.
This strengthened brainwashing education every day made Akdan's understanding of his identity even more blurred. He often stared at the person in the glass wearing Han clothes and tied his hair like Han people in a daze. He saw it for a long time, and his feelings were beyond words.
Later, after two months of auxiliary soldiers training, Akdan and another 600 Manzhou soldiers were transferred from Jintang City to Dengzhou, Shandong, and then organized into the Manzhou infantry post of Pingnan Camp.
By this time, Akdan had already accepted it silently in his heart like the 600 Manzhou soldiers who were selected as infantry posts. From then on, he was a new Han person. He began to have a great hope to make contributions in the Tiger Army and gain a brighter future for himself.
Therefore, in the early last month, in the battle to attack the Dutch city of Jelan Ferry, Akdan fought extremely bravely and fought selflessly with the Dutch defenders. However, he was struggling to attack the Gate Tower of the Gate Tower of the Dutch, but he was broken by a Dutch stray bullet, and he became disabled from the army and had to retire from the army.
Akdan's mood at that time could be said to have fallen to the bottom.
The ambition of making achievements and striving for fame and fortune was finally extinguished. In addition to being depressed, Akdan began to worry inexplicably.
He was afraid that the Shangguans would treat them, the soldiers who were captured by the Qing army, and that their later years were miserable, but he did not expect that the Tiger Army would treat all the soldiers equally, just like those injured and retired Han soldiers.
After reviewing and counting, the officials of the Supervisory and Supervision Department gave him 20 taels of reward silver, and also awarded him a disability pension book and a military retirement medal for military retirement.
With this disability military retirement book, Akdan can receive 1 tael of 500 cents of silver from the local civil affairs office every month as living allowance, and the money will be paid until he dies of old age.
The military retirement medal was his honor mark. From then on, Akdan had the right to not worship the officials and was exempted from the family's five years of taxes.
Then, Akdan was awarded 10 mu of the 200,000 mu of good arable land that he had taken from the Dutch, saving him from the hardship of clearing wasteland and purging the fields, and from then on he could cultivate the fields and live in peace.
At this point, Akdan finally completed the process of transforming from a soldier to a commoner in a short period of time.
Then when the Civil Affairs Department registered the household registration and issued the waist card, Shu Lumu.
Akdan's name was officially registered by officials of the Civil Affairs Department and written as Shukdan.
Then, next to his own farmland, Akdan spent 15 taels of silver to build a relatively spacious house, which was considered to have officially settled a family in Tainan.
However, what he didn't expect was that from the beginning of building his own house, matchmakers kept introducing girls to him who is rich, house and land. In the end, Akdan and a Taiwanese indigenous girl named Qi Na, who was naturalized as a Han people, were successfully handed over.
The tribe of the bride, China, was only moved out of the mountains in September last year and naturalized into a member of the Han nationality. So far, under the subtle policy of Li Xiao's coercion and inducement, nearly 30 tribes of all sizes in Taiwan have accepted the Han nationality's life and production methods and have officially naturalized into a member of the Han nationality.
From then on, these two people who were not originally Han nationality, finally formed a formal couple who received a certificate from the Civil Affairs Department with their Han nationality and their marriage ceremony.
This fate is so rare, who can tell?
Akdan gently lifted the bride's veil and looked carefully at what the bride China appeared in front of him looked like.
The bride China, who had a slightly dark but healthy complexion, had slightly curly black hair, slightly raised cheekbones and thick lips, saw that he looked so seriously, lowered her head without realizing it, but smiled shyly.
Akdan hugged her tightly, smelling the warm and fragrant feminine aura on her body, but tears flashed in her eyes.
"China, don't you really dislike a cripple like me?"
"No, as long as you are a good person, even if you are not good, I will not dislike you." The bride answered in stiff Chinese with difficulty.
After hearing the bride's sincere words, Akdan felt his eyes heat up. He stopped talking, as if a tiger came out of the mountain and threw her onto the bed.
Chapter completed!