For these people who left their hometowns to live overseas, the attitude of the Central Plains Dynasty has always been distinct, because most of these people are merchants, or landless peasants who can't survive, and they will not provide them with taxes if they go abroad to live. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Therefore, after the massacre of Nanyang Chinese by the Spaniards in the last years of Wanli, the Wanli Emperor was furious and demanded to send troops to levy them, but the courtiers rejected the emperor's opinion on the grounds that the treasury was empty and the overseas Chinese did not belong to the people of the Ming Dynasty.

They think that businessmen are originally the last of the four people, focusing on interests and despising friendship and reason, so such people deserve to die, who made you have to leave your hometown and go to those places? If you don't go, you won't die? If you want to leave, I don't care about you, but if something happens, don't expect me to save you.

That's their general attitude.

And such an attitude has also affected many people, everyone generally believes that these people who go overseas are self-isolation from the Ming Dynasty, and you don't pay taxes to the Ming Dynasty, and you still expect the Ming Dynasty to save you? In terms of public opinion, they do not have an advantage, they belong to the abandoned overseas orphans, the attitude and tradition of the mother country directly affect their living environment, and now the prestige of the Ming Dynasty is still there, they can still be a fox and a fake tiger, but until the beginning of modern times, the Manchu Qing Dynasty can no longer provide enough prestige, and the life of overseas Chinese in that era is called a miserable.

But in the final analysis, in the Ming Dynasty, which attaches great importance to the local complex, in addition to merchants, if there are people who leave their hometowns and go overseas to survive, they must not be able to survive in the country to do so, the land has been annexed, the property has been hacked, and even food can not be eaten, so what else can be done? In order to survive, they had to go overseas to make a living, but in the final analysis, there was a problem at home, forcing them to leave their hometown.

Different from modern times, the Ming Dynasty of that era was the kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and the people generally looked down on those "Yi people" with red hair and skirts, and the reason why they could leave their hometown and go to the "Land of Four Yi" was only to live.

It's just that there are too few people who uphold such a concept, and even fewer in the central government, but then again, the world is not peaceful these days, and there are still a large number of people who are threatened by bandits in China waiting for rescue, how can Daming, who has no money in his hands, take care of overseas?

There are not a few maritime merchant children like Lin Yuanshan who live and serve as officials abroad, and there are many such people in the vassal countries around the Ming Dynasty, these maritime merchant children have read, can write, can do arithmetic, have business experience, and are absolutely sufficient in ability, and the golden sign of the Ming Dynasty is like the world's top university degree today, making them more popular in the government of the vassal country.

Not to mention that Da Ming just beat up the Japanese, and once again showed his muscles to the surrounding countries, telling them, don't look at my age, but it's still easy to clean up you bear children, be honest and obedient to the people, don't always think about doing things!

After being warned in this way, the surrounding countries, whether they were vassal states or outside the system, all had more awe for the Ming Dynasty, and in this context, King Narui Xuan's reuse of Chinese officials was a measure to show sincerity to the Ming Dynasty, to express his deference to the Ming Dynasty, to announce the siam side and so on.

Xiao Ruxun received a letter from a messenger sent by Lin Yuanshan on the ship, and when he opened it, he couldn't help laughing.

At this time, Chen Luan came to Xiao Ruxun with two large sea crabs caught from the sea to drink, and saw Xiao Ruxun smiling happily at a letter, so he asked with interest: "Didn't the wife of the Admiral's family send a letter to inform the family that the children in the family should grow up strongly?" ”

Xiao Ruxun looked up and saw Chen Luan, shook his head and smiled: "No, no, guess who sent the letter?" ”

Chen Lan shook his head: "Admiral, I'm a rough person, you just say it directly." ”

"It's strange to say, it was sent by a person named Lin Yuanshan."

Xiao Ruxun raised the letter in his hand.

"Lin Yuanshan? Who is that? Beijing officials or local officials? ”

"Neither! He is a senior staff member of Narui Xuan, the king of Siam, and according to the rank of the Ming Dynasty, he must be a second-rank official. ”

"Second grade? Lin Yuanshan? Chen Ling frowned, and then said with relief: "Aren't the descendants of those coastal maritime merchants who became officials in Siam?" ”

"Huh? Do you know a lot about this? ”

Xiao Ruxun asked curiously.

"That's natural, the old man grew up in the coastal area since he was a child, and he was also an official in this area, when he fought with the Japanese invaders, after fighting the rebels, he had a deep understanding of these coastal maritime merchants, although some of these people were serious businessmen, but most of them were armed forces under their hands, and they were also merchants and thieves, and they were businessmen when the years were good, and they were pirates when the years were bad, and they also did a lot of things that hurt the heavens and reason.

At the beginning, where was the Japanese rebellion! That's basically these sea merchants in the name of the Japanese to organize some outlaws who can't survive to make trouble, while making trouble and many small countries in the South Seas and Francois people to do business, that is a lot of money, and later the imperial court is determined to suppress the Japanese, a large number of maritime merchants because of the crime to be investigated, was chased by the Qi family army all over the world to flee, helpless to flee to the surrounding small countries for refuge.

Of course, in addition to the maritime merchants, there are some hard-working people who can't get by, but those people are different from the descendants of these maritime merchants, the descendants of these maritime merchants, their parents have committed trouble, and it is naturally difficult for the next generation to return to their hometowns, and over time they can only break off the idea of going back, and take root in these small countries, do some business, or simply be courtiers for the kings of these feudal countries.

These people have read, are literate, can also do arithmetic, and have other skills, which are rare talents for those vassal states, so they are recruited to be ministers in the past, or teachers, and train students, and live better than at home, and those landless peasants who really can't live a life, illiterate, and it would be good to live, how can they achieve the position of minister? ”

Chen Lan filled the wine with disdain on his face, one for each of the two sea crabs, sat down, and said: "If you really talk about it, these people are still some people who have no king and no father, as a Chinese Miao descendant, they don't want to serve the country, and they actually work hard for these vassal states, if it weren't for the relationship with the surrounding vassal states, these people would have been captured and killed by the army early in the morning, and they can still stay until today, I see, this Lin Yuanshan must be a thief with a weak heart, his father or his ancestor, must be one of the maritime merchants who caused trouble in the southeast at the beginning, Admiral, what did he say?" Is it asking for mercy or something? Ignore them! ”

Xiao Ruxun heard about these secrets that he had never heard of before, and he also had a little understanding of these Chinese in Southeast Asia and South Asia.

In addition to those landless peasants who can't survive, there are also a large number of descendants of criminals who are active here!