"Dashuai, Xiyi's extensive governance here is beneficial to me."

Upstairs at the port yamen, Zhao Shizhen rubbed his eyes a little tiredly, pushed the map drawn in his hand forward, and said: "This marks the aboriginal tribes within a radius of 100 miles from Agang, according to the guardianship and levy system of the Westerners, the Spaniards in the port have a family as a slave outside. ”

"After passing by the soldiers and civilians, some of the aborigines were taken away, leaving more than 1,000 people, and their owners were either killed or didn't have time to take them away."

Zhao Shizhen added: "The main reason is that more than 40,000 people are called to the mine, and they have to rush there in three months every year, work for five months, and come back in three months to rest for forty days. ”

Chen Mu leaned over and turned the map in his direction, looked at the dense tribal settlements above, raised his eyebrows and said, "There are so many people here?" ”

"More than we thought, Marshal." Zhao Shizhen said that Zhao Changji, who showed a cold face and kind eyebrows, rarely showed this kind of expression, he got up and pointed to a place marked as abandoned: "In the past, 20,000 people lived here, and it was the Westerners who moved from other places to six villages, and it only took twenty years for all the people in this village to die, most of them died in the mines, some died of old age, and some young women were distributed to the westerners in the port, and the young people could not find suitable people to marry and reproduce, and the village disappeared." ”

"This is a fiefdom, they are like the nobles in the Spring and Autumn Period, they put the countrymen in the port, and the savages outside, and each household grows a certain amount of corn, pepper, and cotton, and gives them land, chickens, and mining."

"They rarely kill." Zhao Shizhen pursed his lips and nodded slowly, "But it's much more ruthless than killing." ”

Zhao Shizhen didn't know why he gathered these maps, history, laws, populations and other information in one place, and felt so indignant and cold all over his body after connecting them, in fact, he had been among the executioners.

Everyone around him had blood on his hands, and even Zou Yuanbiao, who was smirking all day long, could say lightly that if he didn't kill a hundred people, he would bloom everywhere, and the three recent vendettas in the port were all related to his deliberate laissez-faire in the county order.

Zhao Shizhen just shook his head stubbornly, with an unconscious slight tremor on his body, and said: "People shouldn't die like this, it doesn't matter if they die, die of illness, or starve to death, Dashuai, they shouldn't die like this, this is to exterminate the race." ”

Chen Mu felt that his staff was a little broken.

"Chang Ji, your idea is right, they are exterminating the Wang clan, if we don't come, one day they will really be exterminated by the dead clan."

Chen Mu is telling the truth, this is an incomparably large race, they are even more than the Ming Dynasty, Mongols, and Jurchens combined, but now there are not so many, if it is developed normally, they will be fewer and fewer.

"But if you look any further, it's not the most tragic thing, you have to think about why they accepted this fate, because the most tragic thing happened long before we arrived."

Chen Mu refers to the Indians' counterattack and resistance to the invaders, rising up again and again and being suppressed again and again, in his opinion, that is actually the saddest thing.

The best of those who had the courage to fight and dared to fight died in the war.

"If we don't go to sea, will we never know these things?" Zhao Shizhen tightened the robe on his body, pointed to the map and raised his head to Chen Mu and asked, "This will also happen in Daming?" ”

Zhao Shizhen shook his head after saying this: "We are better than them, and their army can't beat us." ”

"There is a time of victory and defeat, where there is a lifetime of victory and defeat." It is very interesting that others have almost blind faith in the army he has built, but he does not, he says: "There are times when the army is strong and there are times when it is weak, and after decay comes change, and then there is a new army, and the same is true of the so-called national fortunes." ”

"I also have a decline in the Ming Dynasty, more than a dozen outlaws dare to crisscross Nanjing thousands of miles of land, the northern captives invaded Beijing and there was a Gengxu change, so a group of civil ministers and military generals rose up, the military reform and sand eliminated the old and weak, the car battalion grew and the firearms were updated, and pleasure will rot people."

"Who doesn't want pleasure? Even the Asian strategy, if I didn't know this, I would rather go back and be a Jing Haibo, and just pass like this for the rest of my life, better than a storm hitting the battlefield and fighting and losing my life at some point. ”

"But I know that we have always been in confrontation, and we are not afraid to lose, you see their words are destroyed, a generation is gone, and their blood is cut off, but there are always people who will stand up in times of crisis, so people need heroes."

"People have to believe that heroes exist, and only by believing in the existence of heroes will there be more heroes. If you ask them now if they believe in heroes, they will tell you that they believe in it, and as long as they believe it back, there will still be a chance. ”

Chen Mu smiled as he spoke, and said, "If anyone doesn't believe it, you let him go to the Daojun Temple to worship." ”

"The ethereal god of faith is a crutch when a man is lame, but when he is able-bodied, a firm belief in reality is more important."

Zhao Shizhen said blankly: "Firm belief in reality? ”

Chen Mu raised his finger and pointed at Zhao Shizhen, and said with a smile on his face: "You must know that what you are doing is making the people of Daming live better, and when you carry more for others, you are the forerunner of our compatriots, and you are a god." ”

Zhao Shizhen smiled dumbly, after he clearly learned from Chen Mu that his clan would not suffer the same miserable situation as the aborigines, his heart was no longer so worried, and his words became relaxed: "So the handsome wants to set up many city god temples in Asia?" ”

"I don't just want to set up a city god temple, since Ah Gang, this name is really awkward, and when a new contract is signed, I must change its name...... Since there are still many people here, it is necessary to prepare to plan a larger county seat, and the county government will plan outside the village not far from the Daojun Temple, and gradually expand it with that as the center. ”

"In addition to the official to set up an inspection department, Agang is our social experiment, to build this place into a standardized Ming City, in the future planning and management of other places will also be implemented in this way, it will be much simpler."

Zhao Shizhen nodded slowly, and responded: "The student will find Zou County to prepare the county government and the inspection department, by the way, the student heard that the marshal is not ready to ask the Westerners for silver mines, but in the contract sent to Mexico City, there is a request for silver, why is this?" ”

"Because I want to ask them for silver, they will definitely not give me the silver when I ask for it at the beginning, but if it doesn't work out, let them get me some silver every year, it must not be a problem, even if I don't give the silver, they will give in other places."

"The situation is stronger than the people."

In fact, Zhao Shizhen didn't know that Chen Mu thought that it was wrong for him to force the aborigines to go to the mountains to mine, so he didn't want the silver mountain, but he still wanted silver, how could he do it?

persecuted the Spaniards and asked the Spaniards for silver.

At the end of the day, he's still hypocritical.

Zhao Shizhen nodded slowly, and finally asked, "What is Dashuai's firm belief in reality?" To be a god on earth? ”

Zhao Shizhen thinks that Chen Muting likes to build Daojun temples overseas, this is probably his belief, right?

Chen Mu smiled, shook his head slowly, and said something that Zhao Shizhen couldn't understand: "I am defending my ancestors and pulling them forward, and there is nothing more determined than this." ”