Chapter 498: No Corpses
Civil servants are a kind of position that does not seek merit, but seeks no fault.
Anything, once it is at the stage of writing to the end, then it is easy to throw off the pot in every detail, and naturally practice the ability of "mistakes are others' and credit is one's own".
One of the most classic story cases is naturally someone's inspirational drama of repeated defeats.
The official letter sent from Fuzhou was quickly sent to a ship returning to the north to transport people, and then arrived in Shanghai within a few days, and what was originally a despicable detention turned into "shock!" The officials of Fuzhou maliciously arrested the merchants of the imperial capital, but they were actually for ......"
"Fuzhou is crying, Fujian is wailing, China is crying, you don't know ......"
These reports, mixed with the usual ones, many businessmen complained about the accusations of the old literati and old officials in Fujian and even in the south, perhaps just asking for a little favor, please eat and drink, or something.
In the past, these were very simple things, just like breathing and drinking water, and the officials did not charge benefits, so how could they live.
But the people who have undergone the baptism of human rights in the imperial capital and completely abandoned the good traditions of their ancestors, agriculture and industry, naturally played a big role, tradition, tradition!
Only Chinese people who have been nurtured by traditional culture are people.
In short, with the addition of oil and vinegar, Fuzhou has become a hell for Chinese businessmen, although there are too many people in the south of the Yangtze River because of the army to help the Ming Society, and no one dares to attack the big businessmen, and it is almost common to directly extort small businessmen.
Although the elders do their best to protect the small merchants, they are barely able to do so due to lack of energy.
Under the banner of Shinong Industry and Commerce, after a prince ascended the throne, he wiped his tears, and then announced that the Celestial Empire would be hard and suffer our people for another year, so he collected the taxes of the poorest people.
Under this anger, even though the affairs of Nanyang were complicated, the Council of Elders mobilized several warships stationed in Kaohsiung and began to go to Fuzhou.
In this way, things are expanded.
The imperial capital thought that something big had happened in Fuzhou, but the Zheng family was very afraid of it, and they never thought that there would be any government that would kill people for lowly merchants.
Afraid of being cut off from Fuzhou, the core of the province, the Zheng family naturally paid attention.
Zhao Yu was completely unaware of this.
He was able to come back alive because he relied on the Zheng family to speak, and after he came back, he was previously stolen by the servants who had taken away his and his partner's money and property and carried them back.
The Naxu officials divided the sewing machines and parts, but they shared the profits.
However, the operation of this sewing machine still requires a little skill, so the official turned his head and came to the door with a knife and gun, asking Zhao Yu to do training.
Zhao Yu looked at these servants and said angrily: "You detained me for no reason, and you still robbed things, and now you want me to teach you how to use them to rob my things!" ”
"Do it or not, then the Indian Ocean master is not happy, claiming to implement extraterritoriality and conduct gunboat diplomacy against China, foreigners! Uncle Yang! Aren't you afraid, it's not a crime to kill your whole family in minutes! You are just a businessman, how dare you confront Uncle Yang! ”
Although Zhao Yu was angry, he could only recuperate at home, and his companions were affected by him, but he could only grit his teeth and do it.
went to teach the officials who robbed themselves how to use the things they had robbed, although they gritted their teeth, but they understood very clearly, it was very simple for the officials to kill a very lowly businessman in these years.
Shi Aimin has not rested since the end of the battle and obtained hundreds of Yin prisoners, on the one hand, more and more immigrants are coming, but fortunately, the training of these immigrants is more modeled, the equipment is also increasing, and the quality of them is also improving, and soon the population will become more and more.
He can also take more care of his own family, in addition to dozens of acres of land, other land to raise a few horses and other livestock sent from the rear, it is expected that within a few years, the first western cowboys will be born in this world.
The first-line task of dividing the fields was given to others, those newly arrived immigrants, who, after completing their work, measured out the fields one by one, then marked them, divided the land by lot, and finally got the sudden and then desperate work.
At the same time, they re-selected the settlements, and since they confirmed that there seemed to be indigenous tribes nearby, it was naturally important to ensure the safety of the migrants, all of which naturally required the help of horses, in this era, people were more than easy to do, morale was high, people were able to help each other, and they could make full use of the tools available, and naturally they had their own ideas for the use of water resources.
Some late arrivals were naturally a little annoyed to see that others occupied the coastal land, but the inland world was also very exciting, because of the desire for land, in the end they continued to expand the land, and the family began to move, and finally handed over the words "eat", "drink" and "sleep" to the Yindian captives, and the work finally came to an end.
The so-called relocation of these immigrants is really very simple, they don't have much property, they are all standard seeds, rations and tools, and they can be regarded as moving when they carry them, as for their houses, the North American continent lacks everything, that is, there is no shortage of wood, and the natural warmth of the West Coast also makes it not too difficult to survive the winter.
Careful work calculation system, so that the newcomers and the old people cooperate well, and people with skills have begun to gradually get rich, of course, in these years, everyone will order their skills, use bullets to hunt, and obtain meat has become the mainstream, and even formed a simple bullet black market, after all, it is very troublesome to transport bullets thousands of miles away, and the Council of Elders actually does not want a second arms center to appear outside the sphere of influence.
They only thought that as long as they had their own land, life would always be better, and everyone was full of hope for the future, and at the same time full of gratitude to the Presbyterian Church.
In particular, after the presbyterian council took control of the north, it never bullied the weak, although there were many landlord rebellions and terrorist attacks, and those landlords spread rumors about the presbyterian church in various ways, which also caused the local people to misunderstand the elders, but later, under the economic suppression of the presbyterian church, the land output of the northern landlords became more and more disproportionate, and the vicious circle of more land and poorer gradually increased.
The landlords don't understand, why the emperor doesn't carry out the imperial examination, they habitually raise a few talents, teach their descendants to take the exam, as long as there is a lifter, you can start to merge with others, as long as there is a jinshi, it is a posture that can draw a circle on the spot to occupy the land of the county.
But under such an economic offensive, farming will lose money, and the cheap grain in Liaodong, under the machete of financial subsidies, almost drove the northern landlords to death. Either rebel directly, or take refuge in the imperial capital, or flee from this place like a lost dog, or simply be swept away directly by the Council of Elders, so that this traumatized place and the people who have suffered greatly are finally relieved and live a stable life, even if they are poor, they are much stronger than the previous days of living in fear every day, for fear that life will be favored by the landlord.
And the presbyterians did what they promised, and they did begin to divide the fields among them, and they all felt hopeful at last.
As long as there is hope in the days, then there is nothing that cannot be passed, even if the people work hard, no matter how difficult it is to live, but the longer the farmer in the field, the more and more, the local situation will be stable.
Shi Aimin rode a horse, while inspecting the fields on both sides, only a few of the fields here are planted with wheat, most of them still plant potatoes and sweet potatoes that are relatively easy to grow, but most of them are still barren, from the place they passed, it can already be seen that some plots have been inserted into the landmark, obviously these lands have been allocated, a lot of wasteland here is raw land, you need to spend time digging deep and fertilizing, but the new immigrants have too many things to care about, plus they have to guard against the indigenous people in the distance, So much so that everyone tends to grow a season of food rations to support their own lives, and the land negotiated is barren, and it is better to open pastures to raise cattle and horses in the future.
Shi Aimin got off the horse, walked to a field, squatted down and looked at the soil here, he was a farmer, and he knew what the soil was and what crops were suitable for planting when he touched the soil with his eyes closed.
"How? The soil in this field is okay! ”
The new immigrants were busy for a few days, and they didn't have time to gather out the serious acres, so they grabbed a lot of seeds, and at this time pinched a handful of soil and looked at it, and said with a smile: "This land is simply too good, these fifty acres of land in a year, if you only get one season of grain, at least twenty or thirty people are no problem, if you can get two seasons of grain a year, it will be good!" ”
"Can this kind of child adapt to the weather here?"
As soon as the immigrants heard this, they opened the conversation box and said to Shi Aimin: "This! Mayor is the right person! Let's say that there are all kinds of planting here, each family has their own ideas, the main thing is to plant more potatoes, the land is selected by themselves, and they are drawn together, some of the land is not easy to water, and the potatoes are drought tolerant, so there are some guarantees! In some good fields, it's no problem to grow rice, and the rice is delicious, but this thing! Too much water! Understaffed! Therefore, we still have to have a variety of wheat. This wheat is better to wait until winter to plant winter wheat! The yield is larger, if an acre of land can be a good year, an acre of land in a good plot can produce four or five hundred catties of grain, which used to be used to pay rent, and only a little sorghum rice can be left to live! At present, a lot of land is still barren, and it is necessary to quickly plow it out in the spring of a good plot and plant spring wheat!
But I still have an idea, that is, I can set aside some land, and in the spring, I will plant some buckwheat, this thing is good! Buckwheat grows fast, ripens quickly, ripens in April, and when it is ripe, the spring famine is solved, and it can last until the spring wheat and sorghum are ripe in the summer, and then the plots are freed up, and autumn grains can be planted, such as soybeans and the like, so that more livestock can be fed......
The immigrants told Shi Aimin about farming like a few treasures, and Shi Aimin was more relieved after hearing it, in fact, before he asked the immigrants, he also had some ideas, that is, the question of what kind of food the prisoners ate.
The reason why Shi Aimin remembered this incident was naturally the problem of how to deal with the previous batch of captives, those captives were about three hundred, and the previous raid, due to the coincidental fighting, did not really kill many people, and these natives are not stupid.
After they were brought back, they learned the language at an astonishing rate, and soon they could communicate simply, and some of the men also hit them with ideas, and the natives of the women were about fifty or sixty people, basically very young, and some of them hit them with ideas.
In short, these captives were immediately regarded as important figures by Shi Aimin, and strictly ordered no one in the town to harass and abuse them, and arranged some women to protect them, especially those who seemed to be unusual, and he sent quilts to avoid being frozen.
However, another problem has also come to light.
As for Shi Aimin, although his training was not good, he was also told by the elders that it was impossible for these North American natives to be enslaved.
They are free by nature, and they are very resistant to others asking them to work, in fact, this is the reason why those white people have to go to Africa to transport black slaves to the Americas in history, and the reason has nothing to do with physical strength.
The fundamental reason is still the era of the Indians, although it is still in the tribal era, but there is already a clear sign of nationalization, and the tribes who fought with the American army to the last time in history are basically fought under the command of a certain powerful chieftain.
According to the established policy of the Presbyterian Church, the Indians will be the distant relatives of thousands of years ago, the remnants of the Yin Shang people who went overseas, and the proper Chinese Miao people's own people, and it can be proved that this ethnic group is still not rejecting overseas ideas, and it is not difficult to transform into themselves.
Of course, it is currently difficult for the settlements to even support themselves, let alone transform others.
Fortunately, according to the convention, the strong young man's labor force must obey the orders of the commander every year to defend the fruits of his victory, and after one person dies, he naturally begins to be more centripetal.
Corn and sweet potatoes are originally special products of the Americas, and they are both more drought-tolerant and live-friendly things, which are very suitable for busy immigrants to plant, especially those fields, many people are in a hurry to simply organize and rush to plant, which is more suitable for planting these things.
And these two things also have an advantage, that is, the yield per mu is high, the yield per mu of corn in later generations can reach more than 1,000 catties, and the preferred seeds from the imperial capital are better than those in the Americas, but the yield will definitely not be lower than the various food crops often planted in the Ming Dynasty in this era, especially its drought-tolerant and soil-free characteristics, do not need to be deeply cultivated, it is very suitable for promoting planting here, it should be a very rare disaster relief grain, and it tastes good.
(End of chapter)