The ship that Li Dan saw, the ship that rekindled the flame of hope for him, was Chen Jian's flagship. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When he put down the dinghy to save him, Jian Chen didn't know that this was Li Dan, and maybe it didn't matter if he knew it or not.

Maybe it's that Li Dan, maybe not.

Perhaps, it is just a representative of a small person who rises and falls with the times.

On behalf of those who are self-improving, eager to make a fortune, and go to sea to open up one of the countless people along the coast of Daming at this time, it doesn't matter whether it is Li Dan or not.

Yes or no, they all have a similar fate.

It is the lowest class in the country, eager to make a fortune outside, but was slaughtered by foreigners, and ran out by luck, fantasizing about a comeback.

And the ups and downs of fate over the years have made them believe in one thing even more: businessmen are lambs to the slaughter at home, and the same is true when they go outside.

After these tribulations, the way they thought of was only to build a good relationship with the feudal class, hug each other tightly, and marry the elite and the upper echelons.

They are bold and cowardly.

For the sake of wealth, they can not be afraid of turmoil, but they have never had the courage to overthrow the feudal rights they rely on, and all they think about is to establish a good relationship with power and avoid repeating the fate of being slaughtered in Manila.

Jian Chen didn't even know that the man in the dinghy was a businessman, and a businessman who had the audacity to escape from the Spanish sailing boat.

But since you are at sea, you must always save someone who is in distress, unless it is an enemy, this is the rule.

The sailors knew the ruthlessness of the sea, and they had a little bit of a good person to be rewarded, and someone to rescue them when they were in trouble.

At this time, Chen Jian was accompanying a few people to visit the cabin and gunboat, telling the sailors who saved people to ask the ins and outs of this person. I didn't say much else, and I could see that he was in a good mood at this time.

The sailors promised and rushed to save people, and the sailors were in a good mood.

It is no coincidence that Chen Jian's flagship can appear here, and he is in a good mood because the people who follow him are Shanghainese who have come thousands of miles to learn arithmetic and geometry and shoot guns.

The sailors are in a happy mood because there are many women bought from Fujian on board, who can be dewy couples for a year or two, so as not to have nowhere to release the perennial pressure, and it is a little expensive and troublesome to go ashore.

About a year ago, after choosing a site on the Tamsui River, the helpless people who came with the boat and who should have died in the catastrophe were asked to carry stones and build forts.

In view of the fact that there are not enough people at this time to form a numerical crush, and the grassroots organization has not yet been established, it is necessary to get along with the local indigenous people first.

Sending money and goods, half-buying and half-cheating, enclosing a piece of land, and establishing a trade market, there was no conflict with the local aborigines for the time being.

The local aborigines are still in the Stone Age, and there are holy priests in the village community, he has seen a lot of this kind of thing, and he knows how to deal with it, and the two sides have not had any conflicts for the time being.

The victims who were transported here from Fujian had families, and Chen Jian had a strict order not to allow the soldiers to do anything that caused conflicts because of the crotch of his pants, and for a time many of the people who followed him to the sea had green eyes.

These sailors and soldiers followed him all the way, and they could be regarded as seeing a lot of women. I have slept with Dutch girls, I have slept with black girls, and there are soldiers or sailors who have contracted the disease.

When they arrived on the island, there were women among the natives, but the soldiers couldn't bear it.

They were more accustomed to the same Ming women than to the brown people of Madagascar and southern Africa, who were of the same origin as the Ming Dynasty women than the cultural proximity.

This is a big problem, and if you want to solve the needs of soldiers in this regard, you can either rely on drugs and rubber sleeves, or rely on political commissars. The latter is unrealistic, the former has no skills, Chen Jian had to think about going to Fujian to buy some women, just two years ago the White Lotus Sect rose up in Fujian, the officers and soldiers slaughtered again, and there were many orphans and widows.

The place where the incident started was in Thaning, which happened to be close to the river, and as long as he had a good relationship with the general soldiers, it was also a feasible way to spend money to buy it. Whether it is or not depends on the general soldier's mouth, saying that you are you, and saying that you are not you are not.

Having temporarily gained a foothold at the mouth of the Tamsui River and the construction of the castle began, Chen Jian named it "Wangbei City".

The warehouse had a prototype, and it was just about to go to Vietnam and Thailand to buy rice and transport it back for storage, so he explained the matter of Wangbei City, and took a few ships to Thailand, planning to buy rice and then go to Fujian.

Next year, there will be a major flood in Fujian that will affect hundreds of thousands of people, which is an opportunity to attract displaced people.

It is not cost-effective to spend money to buy it now, not to mention whether there are fanatics of the White Lotus Sect in it, and there will be countless people running here without spending money on the flood next year. It's just that the needs of the soldiers and sailors must also be addressed, and that can only be done.

In addition, the Dutch merchant house on the Thai side also asked someone to bring a letter, hoping to negotiate with Chen Jian, and proposed that Chen Jian help them capture Malacca in the form of mercenaries.

Once captured, fortresses can be built, and the Republic will pay 30%, the Dutch will say that they are willing to pay 70%, and the ships of the Republic will pass the same way as the Dutch ships after the construction, and so on.

Needless to say, the ownership of the fortress was in the hands of the Dutch. It was obviously a trickster's business, and Malacca was dispensable to Jian Chen, knowing the Dutchman's thoughts, he said that he had sent a ship back from the Pacific Ocean to pick up some fleets and troops.

In fact, it is a refusal, and the Indian company in the Netherlands does not know the domestic form because of the distance. But Chen Jian knew that Spain and the Netherlands were about to cease war, and it would be pointless to delay until the armistice agreement was signed.

The Dutch can't spare their hands now, so they can only watch Chen Jian settle in Taiwan, but now that the spices are not monopolized, they really don't have the heart to compete with Chen Jian.

Chen Jian sent people from the Dutch Indian Company to sign a secret treaty in Pattani, with Pattani as the boundary, Chen Jian's fleet would not get involved in the affairs of the Spice Islands and Malacca, and the Netherlands would not be allowed to set foot in Taiwan for a generation.

This is a compromise under the balance of power, both sides know that the signing is to tear up, but they can only raise a glass together to express their willingness to work together to fight the power of Spain and Portugal.

The Dutch have traveled from Europe to this side in no year; Chen Jian's side can directly cross the Pacific Ocean from Mincheng, and this position can be regarded as the limit of the power projection of the two sides at this time, a thousand people, a dozen ships, that's all.

As for the business with Thailand and Vietnam, it is simpler, Chen Jian bought his own private property with real money. On the one hand, in order to prevent too many people from surviving, and on the other hand, the price of rice will skyrocket after the disaster next year, and there is no problem in earning back the capital.

When I went back, I went to Quanzhou again, and it was a coincidence on the way, and I met a group of Japanese robbers who were blown away by the hurricane, and several guns went down to the two platoons of guns, killing more than 40 people and arresting more than 80 people.

This is a great gift, just landed on the shore, so I asked about the situation, ready to give away these more than 80 widows.

Gift-giving is also a science, and Gao Yu sent a message from there, saying that he hoped that Chen Jian would send these widows to Zhu Wenda, the general soldier of Fujian, instead of Xu Xueju.

Gao Yu told Jian Chen that Xu Xueju was about to fall, and there was no need to marry this person again, and Zhu Wenda was Gao Yu's brother, which was an opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

It is reasonable for Xu Xueju to go to the official, he is from Zhejiang. Shen has always fallen because of the demon book case, and Nanjing and Beijing impeached Xu Xueju are indispensable.

On the one hand, it is really a heinous crime to say that Xu Xueju indiscriminately killed innocent people in the process of suppressing the uprising of the Wu Jian brothers of the White Lotus Sect the year before last, and killed three or five thousand good people.

On the other hand, turning over the old accounts from a few years ago, saying that the Dutch just wanted to trade, so they settled in Penghu, and there was no war and no conflict, but Xu Xueju said that he had made a great contribution, which was really a deception to His Majesty.

As for the kind of corruption and bending the law, it is also common, basically everyone is greedy, but party struggle is originally a targeted anti-corruption thing, and when you really want to get people, you can find out the problem.

Chen Jian also happened to be a favor, but he did not deliver it directly, but asked Zhu Wenda to find an opportunity to pretend to send troops to suppress the Japanese and hand them over at sea.

Anyway, these people are real widows, and this can't be faked, and it's a great achievement, to say the least.

With a good relationship with the general army, the matter of buying and selling human beings will naturally be easily finalized. Now that there is a disaster, there is a commotion in various places, and it must be suppressed again.

Three taels of silver per person, Zhu Wenda takes one or two halves, and the remaining half and two are given to the people around him, and then the rest can be used to block the mouths of those people, and only need to organize some inland river boats to transport them from the upstream, anyway, these people are also sinners, and they want to kill or become slaves.

It's just that there is a catastrophe now, and the market for human trafficking is not good, but fortunately, Chen Jian wants it. The general soldier was also happy, and after handing over the more than 80 widows, the two of them had already called themselves brothers.

When drinking, Zhu Wenda couldn't help but complain about why Jian Chen hadn't appeared two or three years earlier, if only it was just in time to exterminate the massacre, he could sell it for 10,000 taels of silver, which could be regarded as accumulating yin virtue. At that time, I killed two or three thousand more with an itchy hand, and they were all poor ghosts who didn't get much money.

Chen Jian only smiled when he heard this, these thousands of people died in vain, and it was just a number of 3,000 or 5,000 on the impeachment chapter of the matter, it was hard to imagine that they were living people.

Basically, this is not a major crime, and the governor and the general soldier were rewarded with a first-class salary, thirty taels of silver, and a total of fifteen taels for their meritorious work in exterminating and eliminating evil......

About the Ming Dynasty's reward has always been like this, Chen Jian couldn't believe that he had rewarded fifteen taels of silver for such a big thing when he heard Zhu Wenda say it, and he was inevitably surprised.

The two men talked a little more, and then they parted after drinking.

Soon after, Zhu Wenda returned to Fuzhou with more than 80 Japanese robbers, and immediately showed his merits to the emperor for how many Japanese were captured, and countless people were drowned.

Chen Jian gave some silver taels again, and only let Zhu Wenda mention it and say that he helped to suppress it, of course, the credit can be noted, but it can be said that the ship happened to appear when the chase was killed, and it was immediately intercepted.

Since the money is given, this is also a matter of one sentence, and there is no difficulty.

Chen Jian did not go to Fuzhou, but took a boat to Quanzhou, and also heard that Jiang Zhili was going to Guangdong because of his meritorious work in disaster relief and the law on the spot, and he would inevitably have to send him a ride, and he also prepared for the future.

Jiang Zhili was promoted to Guangdong, and if everything is normal, it will not be long before he will be promoted to the right political post in Shandong, in charge of the government affairs of the two prefectures.

It's just that no one knows that this fashion is a small person, and if everything is normal and there is no change, Sun Yuanhua, who can become the governor of Leiden at that time, is also in Quanzhou at this time.

Fortunately, Sun Yuanhua didn't know about some of the transactions between Chen Jian and Gao Yu, Zhu Wenda and others, otherwise I am afraid that the heart of Confucianism as a body science and a supplement for Wang Hua Anbang to protect the people would be broken.

Sun Yuanhua and other twelve people set off from Shanghai, and they were going to take a boat, but they didn't want to go to Wenzhou before they heard that the front was not very peaceful, and there were Japanese raids.

Everyone had to get off the boat and advance along the land route, Xu Guangqi had a special silver tael given by Chen Jian, although these people had no fame and could not live in the post station for free with food and clothing, and they did not suffer much along the way.

is catching up with the large-scale floods in the south of the Yangtze River, and what I see and hear along the way is inevitably in tears. Dead babies drifting along the river, crawling with flies, can be heard buzzing far away. In every catastrophe, babies die the most.

Although it is not as tragic as three or five years later, the Shandong area is eaten by changing children, breaking bones for cooking, and paying three pounds of fresh human flesh, it also makes these well-off people unbearable, and they retch.

Every time I read a book, I see words like cannibalism and great hunger, but they are just a few numbers in the voluminous history books. Seeing it with your own eyes, the shock is far from being understood by reading a book.

However, when they reached the main road, these tragic conditions gradually disappeared, and when they passed through some rich cities or feudal fiefdoms, they were all singing and dancing.

It seems to be like two worlds, and the shock this brings to these wealthy young people can be imagined.

When they were about to arrive in Fujian, everyone thought about the land of the feudal kings and gentry before, and recalled the floating corpses that had always appeared in their dreams for a month after the catastrophe. Is it enough to have tens of thousands of mansions in Ande, and it is enough for me to freeze to death alone? Or is it another song by Du Gongbu, Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road? ”

The latter poem of the Du Gong Department has it in every era, but it has a unique taste in the Ming Dynasty, which is both Zhu Semen and Zhu surname.

The former is hope, the latter is criticism, the former is romanticism, and the latter is critical realism. It's just that there is no contradiction between the two.

Sun Yuanhua sighed, before he came, his teacher said that these people's science and arithmetic were worth learning, and he also thought it was true at that time.

When I was at home, I thought about making achievements in the future. Now there are Japanese pirates in the west, Tatars in the east, Liao chaos in the north, and sowing disasters in the south. What he wanted to do at home was to learn the methods of arithmetic, geometry, cannon manipulation, and bastions, so that he could learn the things of Nahuo Wei in the future.

But now seeing all this along the road, he couldn't help but say: "It is said that the avenue is three thousand, and when I arrive in Quanzhou, I will ask them first, whether it is Taoism or science, may people no longer be hungry?" Possibility of building a water conservancy to draw water? Maybe tens of millions of people in the world will no longer suffer from freezing and starvation? If you can, even if you don't test your fame, what can you do if you study for a lifetime! ”

One person said: "Brother Chuyang, what you said is wrong. Fame still has to be tested, as long as you learn from Nahai Gangfeng and do some practical things. It is said that if you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world, if you have no fame, even if you have no ability, where will you go to show it? ”

"That is, let's learn those things, won't we serve the king and defend the country in the future? Otherwise, if you can't use what you have learned, wouldn't you not have learned? Before we set off, the teacher also said that we must not forget the scriptures and learning, and the three provinces of our body. ”

Another humanitarian: "I heard from my teacher, now there is a party in the court, but Ouyang Wenzhong once had a friend of the party. Today's learning is all about life and subtlety. If we learn those things in the future, we will be able to govern the country and secure the country, and maybe we will have to get along with our friends. ”

"Yes, Brother Chuyang, among the four books and five classics, although there is no knowledge of planting crops, repairing water conservancy, disaster relief, and manipulating and repairing forts, these are only micro-techniques. While reading the scriptures, we should learn some more of this knowledge. ”

Sun Yuanhua also nodded, agreeing with this opinion, and said in his heart that if everyone in the world can abide by the words of the sage to cultivate themselves, there will always be enough food in the world, and in the final analysis, it is still not enough to educate.

If there is no education, people are like beasts, and they have learned those sciences and arithmetic, so what is the use? Aren't these things being used to lead beasts and cannibalism?

After figuring out this section with a little hesitation, the previous thoughts that suddenly appeared gradually faded, and with a long sigh, he continued south to Quanzhou.

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