Chapter 326: When facts are regarded as rumors!

The British fleet, who knew nothing about Liang Pengfei and other Western countries, was slowly heading towards Manila, and Liang Pengfei had already begun to prepare for the war in full swing. During this period, from Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and even Jiangsu and Shandong, many people who had lost their land would take a boat to leave their hometown and go south every month, under the secret agitation and inducement of some people.

First we arrived at Yunaguo Island, which has now become an important base for Liang Pengfei. After completing the supply and maintenance of Yunaguo Island, we drove straight south to the various islands under development in the South China Sea.

Every refugee will obtain 100 acres of land on the southern islands. Whether you want to do agricultural farming or engage in planting, there will be professional guidance and provide free agricultural tools. The tax exemption time is as long as five years. If it is your newly reclaimed land, the tax exemption time is as high as twenty years.

In addition, refugees will live in a concentrated manner and form a new village-style production method. It was named rural cooperative by Liang Pengfei, a shameless time traveler. With the unified allocation of labor, it can maximize the use of limited labor to develop more land.

The Chinese slaves who were liberated and free under Liang Pengfei and the soldiers of the Chinese Federation regained their free life. They would produce and live with other Chinese people, and each living Chinese slave received a considerable amount of compensation from the slave owner.

In the face of strong strength, the European slave owners had only two choices, either pick up weapons to resist in vain, or release all the Chinese slaves in their plantations and give material compensation.

However, for political reasons, Liang Pengfei did not completely eliminate slaves on the Nanyang Islands, because those European manors are now creating wealth for him. Moreover, without these relatively suitable laborers, many of the manors would be abandoned. Among these European manors, they were not all the guys who ate people and did not spit bones. Many of them were due to the excessive exploitation of the Dutch East India Company, which forced them to work hard to compress their production costs, which led to the hardship of slaves. Liang Pengfei needed long-term development, rather than plundering like killing chickens and getting eggs. Therefore, those indigenous slaves also received slightly better treatment than before.

Of course, there are also some stubborn manor owners who are full of hatred for Liang Pengfei and the Chinese Federation's rule in South China. Liang Pengfei naturally doesn't mind burying these people under the soil of the manor to become high-quality fertilizer.

Although many Europeans left Liang Pengfei's ruling area, many people stayed. In Liang Pengfei's ruling area, there were about 70,000 civilians and gold diggers from Western countries. Among these people, those with skills often received high salary hiring from the Huaxia Federation and worked hard to serve the Huaxia Federation.

Even those who do not have a skill, as long as they are willing, they either become mercenaries or obtain land like the Chinese, and use their own hands to create tomorrow.

As for the indigenous tribes on various islands, after feeling the completely different and more moderate way of rule between Chinese and Westerners, they also began to walk out of the primitive jungle, accept the repeated influence of Chinese culture, accept Confucian culture, and work hard to learn to be a civilized person.

They obtained a large number of job opportunities in exchange for enough food and essential foods, such as mining and road construction. Liang Pengfei did not need them to engage in the planting industry. He only needed these indigenous people to engage in these two Nanyang development work that lasted for decades or even hundreds of years. With the road, the Chinese could build one town after another on these islands, closely link them, and be able to concentrate the army in the shortest time, and rush to any place to calm all unnecessary resistance and riots.

The indigenous people who were hostile to the Chinese on Java Island and some other Nanyang islands were greeted with more cruel battles than the Dutch. These Nanyang natives who were originally greedy for life and fear of death wisely chose to surrender in the face of powerful force.

Most of them were moved away from the islands where they lived and transported to strange islands, such as Australia, where they worked hard and under the supervision of the armed personnel, they either built castles or fortresses, roads, or mines. Moreover, as the Chinese Federal expedition fleet moved southeast, every time they arrived at a place suitable for the construction of ports, thousands or tens of thousands of indigenous people would be brought to build one land supply port after another for the Chinese Federal coastal areas of Australia, so that Liang Pengfei would implement the southbound immigration strategy in the future.

However, the refugees who went south of Guangxi entered Annan directly under the escort of Annan's army. Whether it was border guards in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places, or navy soldiers, under the financial offensive, they had long ignored this matter.

Moreover, if those refugees who have lost their land fleeing or staying in the local area, they will also cause chaos in public security and even become one of the root causes of bandits. Therefore, local officials also adopted a silent attitude towards this. As long as it is not too much, as for the gentry, they either sing all day long, or show their extraordinary talents and elegance in restaurants and brothels, and do not have time to care about the sufferings of the people, unless they become officials, and occasionally hum a few words when speaking scenes to show how much they love their profession and the people under their rule. That's all.

However, Liang Pengfei has issued a new order, and the refugees from the south are leading to Annan first. After all, the British are now carrying guns, pushing cannons, and driving warships. He does not want his compatriots to lose their lives for a new hope of life.

Anyway, Annan is in Liang Pengfei's hands. Besides, increasing the proportion of Han people in Annan is something that Liang Pengfei is very happy to see. Anyway, there are many Chinese people. You must know that Liang Pengfei just learned the news from the diary a few days ago that now, the population in the world is more than 37,467,200, which is just a number on the official side.

Therefore, Liang Pengfei is very ambitious. The Chinese nation has far surpassed those Western countries by relying on its population alone. Nanyang happens to be a good territory to digest the population. Even if a population of more than 300 million is spread out, it will be more than 30 million. In this era, this population has exceeded that of France, the most powerful and most populous country in Europe.

However, now, in the early stages of immigration, the number of immigrants each month is not large, at most 20,000, and at least 10,000. However, Liang Pengfei is not worried, because in a short time, an unprecedented White Lotus Rebellion covering six provinces, including Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu, and Hunan, involving 204 prefectures, prefectures, counties, departments, and guards, will be vigorously launched.

In order to quell this uprising, the Qing rulers recruited a total of 16 provinces across the country, spending 20 million taels of silver, equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Qing government for five years. This uprising greatly weakened the strength of the Qing army, causing the Qing army to lose more than 20 senior generals of the first and second ranks, more than 400 officers below the generals.

This uprising, which lasted for nine years and four months, became an important stop for the decline of the Qing Dynasty, and the arrival of Liang Pengfei will make this historical trend full of countless variables.

At that time, Liang Pengfei believed that there would be more people, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, escape from their homes. At that time, Liang Pengfei believed that Nanyang became the back garden of the Chinese nation was not a dream, but a realistic outlook.

Now, Liang Pengfei began to consciously spread the news that the British were going to attack the mainland. Of course, they were mainly maritime merchants, spreading rumors in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, and even Shandong and Zhili, saying that the British were very dissatisfied with the court's rejection of their request and decided to use force to force the court to agree to their request.

Of course, in the era when the top leaders of the ruling class of the entire country were busy fighting for power and profit, the middle and lower officials were busy scraping the ground, and everyone praised the era of singing and dancing in unison, the rumors that barbarians wanted to invade our glorious dynasty would only become a joke for these officials and the gentry after dinner.

Although these rumors were regarded as laughing stock by people, the rumors were still scattered and continued. Some people were curious, were those British guys so stupid to take action?

So, some people began to pick up the books and newspapers that they thought were evil books and studied them in depth again. Some people may gain something, while others gain nothing, just pretending it was a bragging act by Westerners.

What's more, a juren even took out an article about the first-class battleship in the West at a brothel gathering, in front of a literary giant who was visiting prostitutes. He was ridiculed by his knowledgeable, well-known, astronomy and geography--as accused by his gods and monster novelists, such as the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the List of Gods.
Chapter completed!