Father-in-law Bao knew that this matter was not small.

In the future, we will hold high cosmopolitanism, red lotus, white lotus root, green lotus leaves, the three religions are originally one family, and the basic concept that human beings on the earth are their own people, naturally they must be unified under the banner of a strong government, and in this regard, the Chinese nation should not give in, and naturally we must be the leader.

This is to strike two balances, after the elders have mastered the world's coinage power, the highest military power, executive power, legislative power, and the Chinese occupy too much advantage, then, it is necessary, at least on the surface, to give the future Europeans some face and inside.

But this face and lining, and can't hurt the face and linings of your own people, it's really difficult to grasp the balance in this.

On the one hand, the Han people who would rather resist the red-haired people who cut leeks once in a few decades to instigate the aborigines to engage in the massacre of the Han people, under the diligent and diligent labor, the fruits of their labor are always plundered, and there must be something sad about the poor people, but on the other hand, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty made the people under their rule would rather be slaughtered once in decades than throw themselves into the arms of the "motherland".

The Nanyang strategy of the elders is to take this tightrope, first of all, to do what you can, for a long time in the future, China itself is the center of industrialization and governance, on the other hand, it can feed hundreds of millions of people, and the Nanyang with countless resources is definitely necessary to take, but now, it is better to stay in the hands of these whites.

In this era, whether it was the Dutch, the Portuguese, or the British, they had not yet thought of what they could do in the future, so it was basically the minds of pirates, such as the British king sent to China, who basically robbed the fishermen and merchant ships in Guangdong, but still licked his face and ran to Guangzhou to ask for trade, all of which were such ideas.

Of course, this is also related to their own lack of population, and it is better to go to various places and rely on the weapons in their hands to rob, or after occupying a place, they will start to provoke the local natives to discriminate against each other and fight, so as to facilitate the profits of fishermen, it is not a long-term solution.

Therefore, it is very appropriate to temporarily deposit those small countries in Southeast Asia in the hands of the Dutch.

On the one hand, you can look for the seeds of discontent within Indonesia and the Philippines to get a perfect political reason for the future take, and at the same time, if you have not established a suitable immigration policy now, rashly take it, just like the one you see, the small and delicate teddy dog intends to snap a much larger big wolf dog, according to the habits of the Chinese, if you don't immigrate millions of people in that breath, it is almost not our land.

Father-in-law Bao can only be perfunctory.

However, after Ye Guotai returned to the prefect's yamen, he was also very happy, his seniority was recognized, and the safety during the prefect's term of office was guaranteed.

I don't know how much money this share is, people settle the bill directly with silver dollars, which can be said to be the hardest bargaining chip, and it is real real money.

"What are you doing?"

Many servants in the courtyard were busy, and Ye Guotai was naturally very puzzled.

"Master, Miss buried the flowers in the afternoon, saying that it was a funeral flower."

Ye Guotai naturally remembered that sentence, Nong is a laughing idiot at the funeral today, he knows who it is, when he first heard it, he thought it was just a little woman's disease-free moan, and after a little pondering, it made people feel cold behind it.

Yes, not to mention today's various behaviors, no matter how high or low the status is, no one can leave this day and leave this world.

On the day of Chongzhen's martyrdom, Ye Guotai also hung the satin of the national funeral, and cried at the funeral, but he knew that it was all dry howling, but no one dared to point out the problem of the prefect.

After we die, after we die, how many people are actually watching with laughter?

How many people just want to eat a meal and meet acquaintances?

Ye Guotai thought of the funerals he attended, without him, at most funerals, what he wanted was actually to take this opportunity to meet people and take more personal benefits.

Thinking of this, he didn't get angry, but asked casually, "Is Miss resting?" ”

"It's rested."

"That's good."

Ye Guotai thought about what he should do next.

As the prefect of Guangzhou, his promotion road is not very good, as a big place like Guangzhou Prefecture, even if the performance appraisal can reach the middle and upper level, how to allocate your official vacancies next, but it is also a very troublesome thing, it does not depend on your ability and grades, the distance of the relationship, whether there is the help of colleagues, are all big problems.

Because the elders disrupted the arrangement of Jiangnan, Nanming really couldn't appear, the reason was very simple, those princes didn't dare to do it themselves.

As a result, without the authority of mutual subordination, Nanjing could not command the other provinces south of the Yangtze River, in fact, almost even Yangzhou, even north of the Yangtze River.

However, the path to promotion was also sealed.

When the Ming Dynasty did not have the Song Dynasty, the Jinshi system from the local government to the central government, and the officials of the central government were basically controlled by the group of animals of the Shujishi.

This is a bit excessive, everyone is one of the top 300 students in the country, if you are lucky, maybe you will change the opportunity, change the exam questions, change the examiner, and I will be the one who wins the top prize.

They are all elites who have been killed from thousands of people and tens of thousands of people, who is worse than whom.

There was a movie in later generations, saying that Wu Mengda won the top prize, returned home, hugged his two wives, and kept saying that the two ladies worked hard to grind tofu.

This is simply nonsense, those who can go to the imperial capital to take the imperial examination, no matter how you look at it, there are no poor people, a giant, how can they all be rich.

Many people have already seen the imperial examination very clearly.

The first meaning of the imperial examination is neither to select talents, nor to spread education through the imperial examination, but to let the wise people in the world enter the cage of the eight shares, so that they can study the chapters and sentences, and the white head is poor, so that these people will not be whimsical, and they are not easy to be confused by crooked ways.

Emperor Du opened Enke and recruited hundreds of quasi-civil servants, and now he is very happy to use them, and this is the reason.

Those who entered the imperial capital were not outsiders at this time, at least although the elders had made many inventions, they had always been Han Chinese, so naturally they could not cause much backlash.

As a Fujianese, Ye Guotai is still well-informed, in the traditional concept, Fujian is a place where the people are fierce, there have been many bandits since ancient times, in fact, the main reason is that there are few people in Fujian, and people can only take risks if they can't survive.

What is a landlord? What kind of person can be called a reactionary landlord?

The official definition is that a landlord is a landlord who owns land and does not work for himself, or has only incidental labor, and lives by exploiting the peasants.

Is this a sin that will be turned into a bad person?

This is a mode of production, and even in ancient and medieval times, it can be regarded as progress, and it can be regarded as the wave that represents the "advanced productive forces".

But when the Europeans started the Age of Discovery, it became the most backward symbol.

Therefore, the landlords are the group of people who rely on land rent to live, and at the same time rely on their Confucian status to seize power, influence national politics, and protect their own interests.

The landlords would never like the overseas colonies, much less the railways, and all the things that would alter the relations of production and damage their position, and this was not something that could be done by redemption.

The reason why feudal landlords are feudal is because people rely on land and can obtain political status that money cannot get.

Landlords and merchants are different, although landlords are also in business.

Landlords don't have to be trustworthy, and they have little interest in the progress of science and technology, unless it's an aphrodisiac.

For example, Zheng Zhilong is a generation of heroes, a pirate, a maritime merchant, who crisscrossed China and Japan, eliminated Liu Xiang and other sea giants, monopolized the Eastern Sea, and angered Western forces such as the Dutch, so that he had to act according to Zheng Zhilong's rules.

This person's beliefs are seriously out of line, such as Catholicism, Japanese Shintoism, worship Mazu, his ancestral tomb is said to be the best feng shui treasure in Fujian, and his son also worships under the Confucian......

A living Cao Cao.

But such a hero, the last move made everyone puzzled, that is, when the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty overturned, not only did he not find a way to maintain this small court, but instead posted a hot face to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and under the recruitment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he personally ran to Beiqian City.

As a result, he went to Beijing, and his son Zheng Chenggong refused to surrender at all in Fujian, putting Zheng Zhilong in a very embarrassing and dangerous situation, and finally died miserably.

Of course, it is impossible for this kind of moral outlook of a sea hero to be dead set on with the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, but to run to Beijing recklessly, no matter how you look at it, it is a faint move, and it is hard to imagine that it will come from the hands of a hero like Zheng Zhilong.

As the contact became more and more frequent, Li Xiangqian and others slowly began to understand Zheng Zhilong's choice. In fact, he was not wrong to choose the Manchu Dynasty, in terms of his position, he was not loyal to the Ming Dynasty, so it didn't matter if he betrayed, but he used each other, but he felt that it was more beneficial to cooperate with the Manchu Dynasty, so he decisively abandoned the Ming Dynasty.

As for going to Beijing, I'm afraid Zheng Zhilong is also reluctant. At that time, the Manchu Eight Banners went south, Zheng Zhilong's army could not stop the Eight Banners that had not yet decayed, so he decisively gave up the small court of Fujian and let the Eight Banners soldiers enter Fujian, and then he was attracted by the governor of Fujian and Guangdong promised by the commander of the Qing army at that time, Bolo, and went to the Boluo camp to meet in person, but he was deceived, ostensibly voluntarily went to Beijing to meet Dolgon, but in fact he was escorted to Beijing.

Zheng Zhilong made a mistake, but it was not a mistake, he just believed in the Manchu Qing. But who would have thought that a force determined to be the orthodox dynasty of the Central Plains would deceive people.

With the experience of long-term cooperation with the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong is a little blind to this kind of official trust.

This is the basis for his current happy cooperation with the Presbyterian Church.

Of course, as a businessman, Zheng Zhilong actually bought a lot of land, but Zheng Zhilong has one good thing, that is, he understands things, and only one percent of his income is land income.

Therefore, Zheng Zhilong cooperated very well with the requirements of the Council of Elders, and even asked to go to the imperial capital for a walk, but he did not leave because of the Vietnam War.

The most important thing is that Zheng Zhilong, a maritime force, understands the importance of a stable base for maritime strength, the Ming Dynasty is already in danger, the people's hearts are scattered, and the team is not easy to lead, he naturally wants to choose a more powerful force to take refuge, he has no ambition to win the world, he just wants to be a sea king, so cooperating with the Council of Elders is actually the wisest choice.

As for morality such as allegiance to kings and ministers, I'm sorry, you're accusing a rogue of spitting on the ground, a pirate's loyalty......

Zheng Zhilong's choice of the Council of Elders is completely a judgment of interests, it is precisely because of the support of the government that Zheng Zhilong can walk step by step to the throne of the One Piece, because he accepted the Zhao'an of the Ming Dynasty and became the chief soldier of the Fujian Navy Division, he can mobilize the power of the government to entangle with his competitors again and again, he failed again and again, but he can afford it, he can build a warship on land with confidence, and go to sea again and again to challenge strong enemies, so he finally succeeded.

And now, Zheng Zhilong, who has repeated his old skills, is happy to find that he has extended his power to Qiongzhou Mansion, and compared to before, he has no foundation, but now he is amazing.

If the Manchus chose to cooperate with Zheng Zhilong at that time, in fact, there was no need to promise any governor of Fujian and Guangdong, or just give a false title, so that Zheng Zhilong could continue to help the Manchus maintain coastal defense, in fact, this is the best choice, with the existence of Zheng Zhilong's maritime group, for the sake of trade interests, Zheng Zhilong would not let his own force be wasted, so the Manchu Qing's coastal defense force would not be as wasted as it is now.

It's a pity that as a regime that was built on lies and killings from the beginning, it basically plays a zero-sum game, that is, if you have more points, shouldn't I have to have one point less?

They can't imagine that there is such a system in the world, that is, you have one more point, I have two more points, and everyone grows up.

Hong Kong, as a small island, actually does not have much room for development.

Transportation hubs, often because of the proximity to the place where the materials are produced, are the most suitable in terms of cost performance, and merchants have calculated and found that it is most convenient to go there to purchase goods and then transport them to the destination.

This kind of distribution center is basically a winner-takes-all, that is, the second highest cost of the path is basically not liked by businessmen.

Hong Kong wants to become a distribution center, unless Guangdong is blocked, only land transportation is left with it, it can be regarded as a good cost accounting, and for cargo owners, where there are many buyers, they can naturally sell at a higher price.

(End of chapter)