Fu Xiaoguan naturally didn't know that a shooting had occurred in Jiuyu Lane.
At this moment, he was still in the provincial government office, discussing a troublesome issue in Wofeng Road with Ning Yuchun and Yun Xiyan from the secretariat.
This Wofeng Road is home to more than three million Yi people.
The vast majority of them exist in the form of families in various counties and prefectures.
For example, in many villages, the entire village is made up of barbarians.
Even though they have now obtained new identities, the short period of time is not enough for them to identify with the Yu Dynasty in their hearts.
When the people of the Yu Dynasty were resettled in these places, this contradiction became increasingly apparent.
The Yi people believed that the migrating Yu people had divided their land, and even thought that Yu people's factories preferred to recruit Yu people when recruiting workers.
They felt that they were being excluded by the Yu people, and even felt that they were inferior to the Yu people.
Perhaps it was to defend their rights, or perhaps it was to swear an oath of their power to the immigrant Yu people. In short, a large ethnic conflict suddenly broke out three days ago in Ningsang City, which was under the jurisdiction of Sima Che.
The Sima family of Yingqiu built the first weaving workshop in Hongyeji outside Ningsang City. Of course, they had to recruit workers after the workshop was built.
According to the scale of Hongye Factory No. 1, it only needs to recruit about 500 people, but because of the unique natural conditions of Hongye Town, it has gathered more than 200,000 people.
Among them, the original Yi people were the largest, numbering 130,000, and the remaining 70,000 were immigrants from various parts of the Yu Dynasty.
As a business family of the Yu Dynasty, in order to cooperate with the work of the eldest daughter Sima Che, the 500 recruitment quotas were divided into two halves, 250 indigenous people and 250 immigrants. It was also solemnly stated that at least ten larger factories would be built in this huge Hongye Village to solve the employment problem of the people in Hongye Town.
However, what the Sima family and even Sima Che had never expected was that the indigenous people thought this was extremely unfair!
We have more than 130,000 people, and they have only more than 70,000. Why should we each have half the recruitment quota?
Why don’t we account for 70% and those immigrants account for 30%?
You Yu people look down on us!
That's how it was. On the day of recruitment, a conflict suddenly arose and quickly developed into a large-scale fight!
"Thirty-two dead, one hundred and sixty-seven injured..." Fu Xiaoguan knocked his fist on the table and continued, "Fortunately Sima Che reacted quickly and stopped the recruitment of workers at Hongye Factory No. 1. Fortunately, Qingzhou Prefecture is only half a day's journey from Ningsang City. Qingzhou Magistrate Yan Xibai received the news and personally led the Qingzhou Prefecture troops there. Otherwise, this fire would have burned even more fiercely!"
Ning Yuchun frowned, and after a moment's silence, he said, "It seems that this kind of thing will happen again in the future. When it comes to issues of mutual interests, I'm worried that more conflicts will arise. If things go wrong... I'm afraid it will lead to disaster!"
Fu Xiaoguan took a deep breath and slowly stood up. He walked back and forth in the secretariat's office with his hands behind his back. "Yun Xiyan."
"I'm here!"
"Issue a prefectural order, requiring all counties and prefectures in Wofeng Road to immediately compile a detailed count of the former Yi people and the immigrants from the Yu Dynasty. No matter where, even in a village, the number of former Yi people must not exceed twice the number of immigrants!"
"I obey your orders!"
"Wait..." Fu Xiaoguan stood still, thought for a moment, and then said, "Tell the officials of each county and prefecture to interview the former Yi people and the gentry and nobles and tell them that... the teachers in all the existing schools, even private schools, must be Yu people, and the content of the teaching must be based on the Yu Dynasty textbooks.
In addition, in my name, I am sending an invitation to the barbarian gentry and nobles from all counties and prefectures to come to Wofeng City on... October 15th. I invite them to admire the moon and discuss politics!
When Yun Xiyan heard this, his eyes widened.
He could understand the first two points, and curbing the number of barbarians was for the sake of balance.
Teachers in schools and private academies must be people from the Yu Dynasty, so that the former barbarians can completely submit to the Yu Dynasty in terms of ideology, culture and even customs.
But Earl Ding'an actually wanted to personally host a banquet for the gentry and nobles of the barbarians... Was he trying to win over the people?
Is this necessary?
In Yun Xiyan's opinion, those barbarians are aliens!
If it weren't for the pressure from Earl Ding'an, according to the opinion of his secretariat, this incident should have been classified as a rebellion by the barbarians, and the prefectural soldiers should have been sent to Hongyeji to teach those barbarians a lesson!
"I roughly know what you're thinking. Don't forget that those Yi people are now Yu people. They are our compatriots, but their mindsets need to be changed."
Fu Xiaoguan patted Yun Xiyan on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Education is not that easy. It may take two generations for them to be truly assimilated. As Ning Zhizhou said, this kind of thing will definitely happen again, but we can't accept the opinions of your secretariat now..."
Fu Xiaoguan cast his gaze out the window and said slowly, "First... Wofeng Road needs a large number of people. Secondly," his face gradually became serious and his tone gradually became cold, "First use courtesy, then force. Win over the majority and isolate the smallest group. If there are still troublemakers, we can eliminate this small group and avoid the pain all over."
Yun Xiyan immediately understood Fu Xiaoguan's intention - he wanted to unite the vast majority of the Yi people by winning over those gentry and nobles, and let them slowly become Yu people.
But he will definitely attack the small number of barbarians who are unwilling to surrender. As for who will be unlucky enough to run into his gun, it depends on whether they have eyes.
Yun Xiyan bowed and said, "I understand!"
Ning Yuchun looked at Fu Xiaoguan. This guy was not a soft-hearted person. If he handed him a lollipop, he would probably hit him with a stick right after.
"Should we ask the eldest prince to send some border troops over?" Ning Yuchun asked with some concern. After all, there are more than three million barbarians in Wofeng Road!
If something goes wrong, if the timing is not right, if 500,000 of them rise up in rebellion... this guy will be in big trouble!
Fu Xiaoguan retracted his gaze and smiled, "Don't worry, in the face of absolute interests, no alliance can be unbreakable."
Ning Yuchun didn't quite understand what Fu Xiaoguan meant, and Fu Xiaoguan didn't explain to him, but talked about something else.
"The Inspection Office needs to be expanded to 50 people. You'll need to figure out how to handle this. Also, with the autumn harvest approaching, the household contract responsibility system needs to be fully implemented between the harvest and the Lunar New Year."
During the slack season, we must start building irrigation and drainage ditches. This money must be spent from your Vaud canton’s finances. This is for water conservancy infrastructure construction…”
Before Fu Xiaoguan could finish his words, Cui Yueming hurried in.
He bowed and handed over a letter.
"Your Highness... Urgent news from Jinling!"
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