Chen Mu really didn't want to go to war with Spain, otherwise the friction on the border would be an excellent excuse to move troops.

"They killed four of our people, why didn't they send troops to drive them away—the marshal would rather teach them to go to the village and lead the people to practice than let them fight."

Don't look at Zhao Shizhen's bullishness in front of foreign envoys, he looks like the second and fourth in Asia, but when he enters the military yamen, he is like a complaining little daughter-in-law, and her mouth is endless.

The matter of just killing four people, nagging from morning to night, can be said 800 times a day, Chen Mu just didn't hear it, but he didn't get angry with Zhao Shizhen.

Now there is an atmosphere of exclusion from the west in the entire Oriental Military Administration, from the immigrants to the officials and then to the Beiyang Army, as if the mentality of the previous time in the South Seas has been reversed.

At that time, Chen Mu was like a war maniac, declaring war with others with his teeth and claws, and now that Chen Mu has entered the time of a sage, the people below have begun to be restless.

The reason why Chen Mu was not angry was that he knew why these people were restless.

In the past, military officials, including Zhao Shizhen, had a certain sympathy for Westerners, although they didn't say it, Chen Mu could think of it as if he was by his side all day long and watched how to bully people, and everyone would have sympathy.

At first, the common people simply feared that the presence of Westerners would threaten their safety, and the resistance of the Banner Army to Westerners was partly due to hatred caused by the killings in the war, and some were motivated by the desire to exchange their heads for advancement.

But now it is different, his people are all angry, not only because of the integration of immigrants and aborigines, but also because of the recent translation of the interpreters in the military government who have taken on the mission of the "Ming Dynasty subtitle group", translating a large number of European books in their hands, some of these books have been printed, so that they know the atrocities committed by the Spanish and Portuguese colonists against the aborigines, those extermination and massacres, which makes them indignant.

Publishing these translated books is a kind of education in Chen Mu's eyes, and he does achieve the purpose of education—people know that not every race in this world has the same kind of outsiders as they do.

Geopolitical conflicts brought about by the development of civilization are inevitable, and the so-called good intentions are to first try to coexist after the conflict has occurred, without violating one's own interests, and try one or even more times until war is unavoidable.

When you fail, I will make rules for you to stop fighting and let you survive.

This is almost the greatest kindness among civilizations, but this is the kindness of only big countries, and almost all major countries will do this, not only China, but in the final analysis, it is the self-confidence brought by the strong control ability of superior civilizations.

And the weak civilization, after the emergence of a crisis, the first thing to think about is to eliminate you, to eliminate you by unscrupulous means and without leaving any troubles, and cannot let you stand up again.

At this stage of China's development to the Ming Dynasty, the way of thinking about dealing with countries is not perfect in Chen Mu's opinion - he has never suffered losses.

From beginning to end, the descendants look at the predecessors, and they are all pinching and crushing each other with themselves.

It is true that there has been a weakening, but after a hundred years, two hundred years, or at most three hundred years, it will turn over again, and it will always win.

This way of thinking of the Ming Dynasty is innocuous when it is strong, and it will suffer a big loss when it is weak because it does not know how to protect itself.

Now at least the immigrants have learned, and they know that if they are crushed by the Spanish, the consequences will be as terrible as the aborigines.

Therefore, everyone was very angry, only Chen Mu regarded these as common sense, and his heart was like water.

"Can you translate books selectively, don't bother with this kind of knight, just send the original Western back to Beiyang, and let those students use it as a training material."

Chen Mu put a pair of military boots on the table, raised his hand and turned a knight translated by officials upside down on the table, and then replied to Zhao Shizhen's previous words: "War is my means to achieve my goal, not the goal, now that I don't need to fight to achieve my goal, why should I pay the price of killing and wounding soldiers?" ”

Chen Mu spread out his hands and leaned on the back of the chair and said leisurely: "Just to kill people and grab land?" We can't even plant our land now, and when the new year comes, we will send a new pioneer team to open up the land to the north, and we can get almost everything from the west without a single soldier, so why go to war? ”

Saying that, Chen Mu put his legs down and sat up straight, and said: "Why are you when Lin Youshuai led the troops to drill on the border side, if there is a problem, it is not the turn of the people to do it, and the guerrillas will clean up the people first; The guerrillas did not move, but only reported that the mistake was with us, and that our armed people had crossed the border and liberated all the plantations. ”

"You can save someone who has stumbled and fallen into the water, but you can stop someone else who is bent on seeking death and jumping a second time?" Chen Mu pursed his lips: "The prestige of the people of the Heavenly Empire is like this?" ”

This matter is completely unjustified for Chen Mu, he is no matter how unreasonable he is, and it is impossible for him to stand up for this matter, unless it is his person, but his person is not so stupid.

Escape from the plantation in all odds, no matter what the reason is, go back to save people or take revenge, why don't you take a few people with a few guns? Just wearing a Ming man's clothes, he dares to go back to make trouble empty-handed, this is not confidence and superstition.

It's too tiger, too.

Zhao Shizhen thought about Chen Mu's words and felt that there was some truth, and slowly nodded and asked, "Then what is Chen Shuai's purpose to make Daming prosperous?" ”

Zhao Shizhen has heard these words countless times, and always feels that Chen Mu's purpose is not like that, although the result is good, going to sea makes Daming very rich, but others feel that he fights when he shouldn't fight, he bullies people when he thinks he shouldn't bully people, and when others feel that justice should be done and when they should fight, he turns off the fire.

It's always weird.

"I'm looking for something, looking for the secret of civilizational progress."

Chen Mu squeezed his eyes and pretended to be mysterious, raised his eyebrows and said: "It's getting closer and closer, recently I found out that this world will run on its own, and the development of science and technology is not so mysterious." ”

This sentence was in Zhao Shizhen's ears, and Chen Mu only used the words of the gods to prevaricate him, but this was really Master Chen's heartfelt words.

It took him ten years to figure it out.

This world will run by itself, and development can be controlled naturally by human beings, but if you want science and technology to produce a qualitative leap, it is difficult to achieve natural operation, and because it is difficult to achieve, Chen Mu used to see this problem as too complicated.

But now, he already knows that all he needs to do is find a key key to open a new door.

He had already found several keys for Da Ming.

Zhao Shizhen didn't understand, so he simply didn't ask anymore, he preferred to believe that Chen Mu was fighting for the Ming Dynasty's finances one after another.

Immediately after, Zhao Shizhen shook his head and suddenly thought of something, took out a wooden box with gorgeous and complex decorations on the table, which looked like a Spanish-style one, and said: "By the way, this is the last time Fu Ge'er came to give the Western book to the handsome, saying that it was his gift." ”

"It seems to be a manuscript of a famous person from the West, an antique."

Chen Mu smiled, this Fu Ge'er still knows how to give gifts to himself? Not very valuable, he raised his hand to take the box and whispered the engraved handwriting on it: "Leonardo manuscript? ”