Chapter 345: Pig Farm

Walking into the pig farm, Yu Chengchan raised his head and saw that the tall roof was painted with various luxurious patterns, which looked very magnificent. The floor of the www.biquge.info building is covered with polished tiles with patterns painted on them.

Those tiles are obviously produced in the Ming Dynasty decades ago, although the Ming Dynasty had a sea ban, but the people were secretly trading, some gentry and nobles controlled the sea trade, there were merchant ships to go to sea, transport goods for export.

Originally, the Ming Dynasty's sea ban was to prevent the Japanese invaders, but after the Japanese were pacified, why didn't they open the sea? This involved the interests of the gentry. Because of the sea ban, the export goods were strange, and the trade rights were firmly controlled in the hands of the gentry, who could earn a lot of silver without paying taxes.

There are also some pirates who collude with the gentry and officials, if the Ming Dynasty opens the sea, these pirates will naturally be recruited and turned into officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. But because of the sea ban, they could only be pirates forever, and in order to be able to obtain goods for export, they joined forces with the gentry and officials, and fed the gentry and officials with a large amount of silver.

Of course, there are also pirates who have been recruited, such as Zheng Zhilong. After Yan Siqi's death, the eighteen Zhiqunlong had no leader, and Zheng Zhilong, who married Yan Siqi's daughter, took the opportunity to become the boss, and after eliminating Yang Tiansheng, Liu Xiang, Li Kuiqi and others, Shi Fu, that is, Shi Lang's father, and Hong Xu, all took refuge in Zheng Zhilong, and He Bin took refuge in the Dutch.

The quality of the tiles used to lay the floor is certainly not as good as the porcelain used to make tableware, but in those days, the price of tiles was not cheap, and in such a large building, there were so many tiles on the floor, you can imagine how expensive such a building was.

Looking at the stairs in the building, the handrails are made of high-quality wood, and many places are covered with copper skin. The floor inside the hall is made of white marble and is of high quality.

White marble is also a high-quality building material, which Yu Jackie Chan saw when he was in the capital. Only the imperial palace, or the luxurious mansions of the dignitaries in the capital, have white marble and tiles. Obviously, there are these building materials in Nanyang, which were all exported in the Ming Dynasty.

"Although the sea was forbidden back then, the gentry's goods secretly went to sea. It's just that the Nanyang routes are monopolized by red-haired ghosts, and the gentry's goods to go to sea can only be transported to the Guangdong area, and then sent here by the soft sailing ships of the Taixi people. Building a building like this is a lot of money for the locals! Liu Qi said.

Yu Chenglong asked: "Where did they get so much silver to buy tiles and white marble from us?" ”

Liu Qi replied: "There are still a lot of gold and copper mines here, as well as a large number of spices, all of which are high-value commodities. Their spices were shipped to Europe, and they could get a lot of silver. These natives, because they were reliant, did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to build these buildings. Many of the buildings were designed and built with the help of the Great Cannibals. ”

Yu Jackie Chan still knows a little bit of history: "Big cannibal? The Great Food Empire was destroyed by the Mongols, and then the Mongols weakened, and it was the Rumi Empire (Ottoman Turkish Empire) that controlled the Great Food, so they could still come and preach? ”

"Why did the kingdom of Srivijaya perish? It's because the big cannibals came to preach. Despite the rise of the Rumi Empire, the Great Cannibals still walked the sea with ease, and they preached to Srivijaya and Europe, everywhere. The previous Great Cannibals also invaded Europe many times, but they were beaten back by the Westerners. Later, the Rumi people were also religious, and the Eastern Roman Empire was also destroyed by them, and their missionary scope expanded to part of Europe. Liu Qi said.

Yu Jackie Chan knows a little bit, because there are also people in China who believe in religion, most of them in the northwest. Yu Chenglong is a native of Shanxi, and he can also come into contact with some religious people.

What was once a hall of worship has now been turned into a pigsty with at least a thousand pigs in it. The sound of pigs barking, the sound of pigs eating, and the unpleasant smell of pigs made this luxurious building immediately feel downgraded.

The hall was fenced with a wooden fence, and inside the wooden fence was a wooden trough full of pig food, and the fat pigs were humming and eating the contents of the contents. However, the hygiene in the pig farm is still good, there is a special drainage channel, which can excrete pig manure and pig urine.

A couple of dark-skinned men with white hats on their heads were walking around with a basin full of pig food, feeding the pigs. When these people turned their heads and looked at Liu Qi, their eyes showed a kind of sadness, helplessness, but a very hateful gaze.

Liu Qi sneered: "I know you hate me!" You want to kill me! But you can't beat me! As for the punishment for your destruction of Buddhism, you should raise pigs here for the rest of your life! ”

"They consider pigs unclean, but you force them to raise them!" Yu Chenglong shook his head.

There are still a lot of people in the farm, and it can be seen that those people are originally believers.

Liu Qi also introduced: "Not only the clergy here were punished for raising pigs, but also some believers who opposed us were also imprisoned here to raise pigs. ”

"Are they willing?" Yu Chenglong asked.

Liu Qi laughed: "Of course there are unwilling guys!" And resisted! The punishment is simple, kill the resistant, cut off their flesh and feed it to the pigs! They believe that if the body is eaten by pigs, the soul will not go to heaven, but to hell! As for forcing them to raise pigs, they believe that even if they raise pigs, as long as the clergy have prayed and begged their true God for forgiveness, and do not eat pork, they will still have a chance to go to heaven. ”

Yu Chengchan shook his head again and again: "Why do you treat them like this?" Is it wrong for them to believe in their own religion? ”

Liu Qidao: "This is not what the old man himself meant, it is the handsome man who wants to do this!" Dashuai said that these people destroyed Buddhism, and they forced Buddhists to believe in their religion back then, and now they are retribution for them! It is also their retribution for destroying the kingdom of Srivijaya! Dashuai's meaning is to turn this place back into a Buddhist territory. ”

On the island of Java, in addition to the former clergy who have become professional pig farmers, those ordinary natives have become slaves. As for religion? No way! The Green Church Temple has become a pig farm, and if they want to be religious, only Buddhism is left to believe. To this end, Wang Xinyu invited many monks from Siam and Burma on the other side.

In order to promote Buddhism, the Nanyang Company did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to build a number of monasteries to house monks from Burma and Siam.

The reason why Buddhism is promoted is because the Green Religion is very difficult to control, and it wants to turn Indonesia into his own territory, and Wang Xinyu does not want to see rebellion and riots here at every turn. When people here are converted to Buddhism, they lose their sense of resistance. (To be continued.) )