Something happened in Johor.

Hao Zheng squinted his eyes and looked at this report, this Johor borders Dingnan Province, which is actually the country of Malaysia in later generations.

There, there are also a lot of Chinese, many people gather in the Malacca area, because the strait is across the strait is Sumatra and the Srivijaya country, and it is the passage between the Tianzhu Sea and the Western Ocean, so the Chinese here, the vast majority of them are mainly in the sea trade, they traffic in various local specialties, travel to various places, some are in Malacca and other provinces in Johor, do some small business, the poor also have it, or do leg power, or make people as men, because there are many ethnic groups there, but the number of Chinese is more than Dingnan Province.

In the same way, there, because the Chinese are born hard-working and good at camping, many Chinese merchants have accumulated a lot of wealth, coupled with the rise of Lang Son in recent years, mainly Han Chinese, these Chinese rely on the convenience of language and customs, close to the water, and monopolize many trades in Lang Son and Johor, so the wealth is increasing, and many of them are rich to rival the country.

What happened in Johor this time was not that these Chinese were bullied.

In fact, since the collapse of Siam, the treatment of Chinese and Chinese businessmen in Western countries has become much better, and various countries have become more or less jealous of these 'relatives' of the Hao family, so they have all the wanton humiliation and humiliation as before, and are even willing to give Chinese and Chinese businessmen a certain equal treatment.

In the past, Chinese and Chinese businessmen did not have fists, so they were inevitably angry, but now there is such a big gun stand of the Hao family here, naturally. The status has gradually improved.

This incident caused a lot of trouble, and it is said that someone directly attacked several state capitals of Johor, and the soldiers and horses of Johor have gathered. It means that you are prepared to fight each other.

It's just that the root of this problem is not in Johor, but in Dinh Nam province.

What happened is ridiculous, Nadinnan Province now has no king, and the court has not sent a governor, so this power is actually in the hands of the political situation. The so-called information bureau is nothing more than the so-called people from all walks of life who are elected to the bureau to discuss politics, and then the chief minister is promoted. It's just a matter of taking care of government affairs.

After the political situation in Dingnan was released, those high-level officials and nobles were also satisfied, anyway, with this. They at least maintained their position. It's just that the Bureau of Information and Governance also stipulates. Any merchant who is willing to pay a deposit of 80,000 yuan in silver is also qualified to discuss politics, so a large number of Chinese merchants will pour in, if they play blood, the Chinese merchants are naturally far inferior to the old bureaucrats and aristocrats, but playing with a few heads, the means of the Chinese businessmen began to appear.

They started newspapers. Widely publicized, for their own beneficial policies. It was not long before many bills favorable to commerce and trade were passed, and even Wu Tai, who was elected chief minister, did not dare to underestimate the power of the Chinese businessmen, let alone their demands, because once they attracted the opposition of the Chinese businessmen, their strength of nearly 30% in the senior political bureau was enough to disrupt a policy, cause a split in the political bureau, and make it difficult for Wutai to move an inch.

In addition, this Wutai started by killing the King of Siam, and he was most worried that the descendants of the King of Siam would be restored, so he relied on the Hao family a lot.

As a result, Dingnan successively passed a number of bills that were absolutely beneficial to Chinese merchants, freedom of trade, cutting of various checkpoints, and criminalization of displaced people.

Among them, the most powerful is the Guilty Decree for the Exiles.

You know, the vast majority of the current industry in Dingnan is to provide resources for the workshops of Langshan and Jiaozhi, so the big businessmen often buy mines, wanton mining, buy mountains and forests, cut down, and some extremely shoddy handicrafts, such as primary textiles, crude steel refining, etc., they are often characterized by the downstream of the Langshan industrial chain, and the profits are not high. It was not enough to compete with Lang Son or even Cochin, but some people thought of a way to lower the price of labor and fill the gap in the lowest end of the market, but the problem arose again, because the wages were too low and the working hours were too long, the vast majority of Siamese people were reluctant to do such work.

On the other hand, due to the large number of land annexations, the new large landlords obviously did not need so many tenant farmers, and the Han people who migrated were mostly distributed land, and did not want to feed a few more mouths, and those Siamese who lost their land had to pour into the cities.

On the one hand, it is difficult for them to establish themselves in the countryside, and on the other hand, it is extremely difficult to find suitable jobs in the cities, and the number of displaced people is naturally increasing.

The guilt of the homeless people is nothing more than that the homeless people are lazy and lazy, and they are often very easy to gather crowds to make trouble, so that some people prefer not to look for work to work, and live a hungry meal, but also prefer to wander the streets, while on the other hand, there are a large number of workshops and mines that cannot find labor. Then, whenever the government finds a homeless person, they will punish him, and the first time he takes it, he will go directly to hit the board, and the second time he will take it again, he will be whipped thirty, and if there is a third time, he will belong to the type of mob and be hanged directly.

This decree was really unreasonable, but it was miraculously passed in the political bureau, and soon, the merchants made a fortune.

In the past, in order to attract labor, they had to raise some wages, but the increase in wages meant that their already meager profits were even thinner, but now it is different, those homeless people who are wandering all over the streets, now they are begging grandpa to tell grandma to find workshops and forest mines one by one, just to have a job to do, not to be held by the government, as homeless, and the workshops and forest mines, not only did not increase the salary, but greatly reduced, because the more people looking for work, The less work they provide, the more bargaining capital there is, if you refuse to give in, then it doesn't hurt to see where you can be contained, and when the time comes, don't say that you are earning money, I am afraid that even your life will be gone, it is said that some workshops, the so-called daily wages, is a small rice ball, but the labor time is as high as seven hours, day and night, this manpower is much lower than the price of animal power.

All kinds of laws and regulations allow many businessmen to take advantage of this to make a lot of money, the more silver, the more capital, the stronger the strength, and then more people use various means, more businessmen enter the political bureau, the greater the influence of the businessmen in the political bureau, and the extraordinary unity, several times down, the inside and outside of the political bureau are all businessmen, and the decree is almost from the businessmen.

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It is precisely because of the influence of Dingnan merchants that various places have become restless.

Those businessmen who had been bullied in the past suddenly discovered that there was such a 'beautiful' world in this world, and naturally, the 'good governance' of Dingnan in private began to spread, and Chen Xue, who had expanded his influence in recent years, had put forward many ready-made slogans, such as the most common trade, such as the discussion of politics by merchants, and the inviolability of private property, so these doctrines were not only deeply rooted in the hearts of the merchants, but also ordinary people who were tired of the rule of the aristocracy were also ignorant and enshrined as treasures.

Johor was the most affected and took the lead in starting to make trouble, and a group of businessmen led the way in the Malacca area, asking the King of Johor to set up a political bureau. The people talk about national politics together, the people here are naturally similar to the people's umbrella of the readers, the readers claim to be the people, and the businessmen probably claim to be the people, but no matter what, the new slogan is glamorous after all, and these businessmen also have enough influence, they attack together, immediately make the Johor royal court panic, if it is in the past, of course, it is not a word, immediately raise troops to suppress, but now, this Johor country does not dare to risk the world's disapproval, for fear of provoking the backlash of the Ming and Hao families, so they are determined to appease, several times with the leader of the Chen Qing discussion, such as giving some businessmen, especially Chinese businessmen, to improve their status, seal some titles, and want to divide by this。 It's just that the Johor businessmen who have tasted the sweetness of Dingnan Province are willing to back down and press step by step.

The aristocrats of Johor are not stupid, and if they really make a consultative board, it will be tantamount to giving up their privileges and giving them to these merchants, and naturally they will not be willing to do so.

As a result, the situation was severe, and there was a riot in many prosperous commercial and trade cities, all of which were done by radicals, who carried gunpowder and suppressed many government offices, and Johor also took the opportunity to make a decision and decided to suppress it, and a large number of officers and soldiers began to go out and arrest many rebels, but their tough measures did not suppress the matter, but immediately made the public sentiment in Johor boil even more, and a group of self-proclaimed trade freedom elements gathered and raised their own political situation. The Chief Minister of Johor was elected on his own, and the Chief Minister of Chinese origin immediately issued the first Decree on the Wealth of Johor, calling for a one-way struggle against the royal court, and if necessary, to depose the king of Johor and return it to the people.

This......

Hao Zheng looked at the newspaper and rubbed his temples, and he suddenly realized that this world was really crazy.

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Chapter 2 is delivered. It's the middle of the month, ask for a monthly pass! (To be continued......)