Chapter 105: Arson and Lighting (I)
It may take some time to come back. At the time of these events, Jian Chen was probably on his way to Ryukyu or to Beijing to pay tribute.
By the time these events were over and the fleet of the Mexican Party organization had crossed the Pacific Ocean to Taiwan, Chen Jian had already returned to Wangbei City from Beijing for half a year.
This year, the rest went according to plan. He calmed down and began to compile a complete set of primary school textbooks, including literacy, mathematics, natural knowledge, geography, astronomy, physics and chemistry, enlightenment, ideology and morality, etc., as a common textbook in Asia.
From the beginning of the Enlightenment, it was necessary to completely destroy the foundation of feudal superstition and the divine right of kings. Anyway, there is no special medicine, and those rogue officials will not be able to survive in Taiwan, and the officials sent from the north can easily get malaria, and they are not afraid of causing too much of a sensation here.
Chen Jian believes that when this group of children grows up in more than ten years, at least there will be no foundation for the emperor to be a royal emperor here. Fortunately, in the previous life, he spent many years pondering the problem of enlightenment education in the second half of his life, and in this life, he painstakingly compiled arithmetic and geometry, and it was not difficult to write a set of enlightenment textbooks that were advanced at this time and easy to be accepted by children.
Twelve local literate Chinese teachers were trained in a fast-paced way, twelve enlightened math teachers were found from among the people prepared on the ship, a group of young people who signed contracts with the ship from Lanxiang School became natural knowledge teachers, and some disabled soldiers were used as physical education teachers.
Compulsory enrolment has been introduced in accordance with the effect of sharing a pair of Chinese and mathematics teachers for every four classes, a pair of nature and physical education teachers for every 12 classes, a general knowledge teacher of labour skills for every 12 classes, and a routine visit to the plantation and the rest of the workshop every six months.
In the early stage, he was a teacher, and when necessary, he also taught by himself, using this way that the teacher learned two months earlier than the child, and used his daily time from morning to night to talk about the boredom of those primary school courses, and built a systematic Enlightenment School team.
Each class is crammed into forty or fifty people, with separate tables for men and women.
For the education of adults, it is semi-mandatory, and most of these people who come anyway are disaster victims, who have nothing, and have become de facto employees. Thus the level of literacy determined wages, and the provident fund of wages determined the priority of the distribution of land and cattle and horses after four years, and this semi-coercive method and the party members who had reached their limits were brought in to support short-term education.
Except for the one he did, the rest went well.
The people who returned from Jingdezhen and Sichuan, taking advantage of the official kiln strike, hired several skilled porcelain craftsmen, and spent real money to bring a complete set of Zhuo Tsutsui tools and skilled craftsmen from Zigong.
These treasures will return with him on his flagship, and as long as they don't die, they won't die.
Listening to the man's craftsman explain one by one, Chen Jian sorted out the content one by one to make notes, cut out some superstitious things, and try his best to know what it is and why it is true.
Li Dan, who had traveled to Manila, also brought back good news, the Spaniards apparently sensed that there was something wrong with the fleet, but did not do anything - Manila had received news from the Viceroyalty about Europe and the Viceroyalty, and was wary of the country while not giving it a chance to make trouble, especially after the countries had discussed the question of international law.
The Spaniards sent two ships to Taiwan for a half-circle, and Chen Jian's fleet accompanied the Spanish ships on a half-circle in the sea.
The news from Japan is also quite good. The Tokugawa family expressed their understanding of Ken's actions in the Ryukyus, and took the opportunity to take some of the land of the Shimazu family, and to return the Shimazu family's large ships of more than 500 koku to the shogunate.
The Shimazu family really couldn't suppress the civil strife, and Chen Jian personally contributed money to help those who borrowed the Shimazu family's money in the Ryukyus to repay the money, and rewrote an IOU in his own name. The Shimazu family was helpless for Chen Jian to say that the Battle of Ryukyu killed the four merchants in his country, and compensated forty taels of silver in exchange for Chen Jian to write a guarantee document: The compensation between the Ryukyus and the Shimazu family will be solved by the Ryukyu people themselves, and he will not interfere, which means that it is impossible for Ryukyu to ask for this compensation, just a formality.
As for future tariffs, Taiwan, a strong feudal domain in the southeast, Catholicism, and the closure of the country, Japan is dealing with them, but it is unlikely that they will be so drastic.
Further east, Chen Jian sent two ships, followed the Dutch to Malacca, and fired a few cannons at Portugal in the name of mercenaries.
At the same time, he quickly prepared the expectation that the Dutch would no longer directly attack Spain after the signing of the Spanish-Dutch truce, and encouraged the Dutch to occupy the Spice Islands, signaling that they could send people to support.
The Dutch Indian company was supposed to negotiate with the British Indian company, but after Chen Jian intervened, this negotiation did not take place again in this time and space, and the contradiction between the two sides around the spice monopoly escalated.
Originally, both sides felt that their power in the Asian archipelago was not too strong, and that there were common enemies of Spain and Portugal, so it would be beneficial for both sides to negotiate a proportional distribution of spice quotas between them.
However, now that the Netherlands has found an ally like Chen Jian here, and Chen Jian does not look down on the current Britain, there is no need for this negotiation.
Jian Chen was sure that the Dutch would never reach this side until they had established themselves in the Spice Islands, especially if they had already established themselves.
The Dutch gave up trade north of Pattani in exchange for Jian Chen's acquiescence and support for Dutch operations in the Spice Islands region. At least for the time being, if the Dutch have their hands free to gain a foothold in Indonesia in a few years, they will naturally have to think about this side, but unfortunately time did not give them a chance.
Soon after, the fleet that had sailed across the Pacific from Minjun arrived in Pattani more than a year later, but one was sunk and lost in the wind, but the rest were still there.
The three warships of the sister ship of Purple Quartz, 3,000 flintlock pistols produced by Chen Jian's arsenal, a large amount of saltpeter, perfectly formulated gunpowder, a complete set of sulfur-based acid-base joint workshop equipment, 1,000 paramilitary employees, a large number of craftsmen, immigrants, a new batch of graduates of the academy and party cadres, as well as 400,000 silver coins and 120 catties of gold in cash and precious metals, and four times the excess of the general banknotes of the resettlement area, made Chen Jian tremble suddenly.
After a grand welcome party, Jian Chen rubbed his hands, looked at the large number of guns and the increase in ships and the precious metals stacked in the warehouse, and immediately wrote a letter with a pen.
He didn't have the courage to write it before the fleet arrived, but now he wished that the letter would cross the sea at once.
The letter was addressed to the Governor of Manila, and the content was very simple: the Ming Dynasty leased Taiwan to us for twenty years, and we needed tribute. At the same time, I was also the foreign official of the Ming Dynasty, and the envoy of the Western Domain.
Except for introducing his identity and repeating the treaty with Daming, there were no other words. chose a merchant ship and asked Li Dan to follow him on another trip.
After that, a bank was quickly established in Wangbei City, and silver coins and gold were used as reserves to promote paper money among the victims of Wangbei City.
One is that these victims knew about the existence of banknotes, and the other is that they did not have any silver on them, and all the food and drink had to be purchased by the wages paid, and the promotion of paper money was unusually smooth.
Now self-sufficient in grain and sweet potatoes, and some large sugarcane farms are now ready for harvest. These craftsmen came at the right time, just in time to set up a sugar extraction workshop, and Chen Jian is also confident that many problems that rely on the eyes and skills of craftsmen can be solved by thermometers; I also know a little about those methods such as decolorization and winemaking.
The lumberyards along the river, the wharves built at the mouth of the Tamsui River, and the shipyards were all quickly started after the craftsmen were replenished.
The gold mines, coal mines, and sulfur mines, Chen Jian did not move for the time being, but continued to ask the prospecting team to quietly investigate and formulate a feasible plan, and now is not the time.
This is the time of day, and of course it is trade.
On the one hand, the news of sending people to build momentum in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou and preparing to set up a trading company began to spread in these two places, and there were few people who responded for the time being, not very many.
On the other hand, after the fleet that had crossed the Pacific Ocean to come here was refurbished, Chen Jianyao went to Fuzhou with great dignity, and carried the eunuch that His Majesty the Emperor of Chixian Shenzhou had given him, and went straight to Ryukyu.
In a month's time, he became a very qualified anti-smuggling army in the Ryukyus. Everyone knows that it is illegal to trade in Japan, but most of the illegal ones must be profitable.
He did this not for the purpose of anti-smuggling, but to monopolize the trade, forcing those people to join trading companies and form an interest group.
During the peak season of smuggling trade to Japan, Jian Chen dispersed his fleet and used pirate wolf pack tactics to cruise between the Ryukyus and Japan.
All the remaining were seized, and the ship sailed back to the north city to count the goods.
Of course, these smuggling ships have a relationship, especially with the officials of all parties, and Chen Jian does not listen, and all the boats that are caught will be cleared and detained.
Since the officials and gentry still talk about morality, they should talk to them about morality: this kind of smuggling is no different from collaborating with the enemy, and those who do it are accomplices of the Japanese pirates. If you want to torture yourself, and hand over the content of the torture to those imperial histories and to the hands of the people, this morality will be very interesting to talk about.
As for the immorality, as long as these people are not capable of breaking through the blockade and attack of their own fleet, they can only acquiesce, then they are not moral. Anyway, they don't eat alone, leaving them with enough equity, so there is no point in talking about morality at this time.
It is estimated that the news has spread in Fujian and exploded, and at this time, it has attracted people's envy and some people are ready to write about their own lawlessness, Chen Jian came to Zhangzhou slowly.
The construction of the large building, which had begun after the end of the tribute a year earlier, had been completed, and when Chen Jian's carriage entered the building, hundreds of people spread the news to the ears of those behind them, and those who were already anxious to climb up the hot pot, and those who were convenient to come forward and those who were not convenient to come forward in person, sent people to negotiate.
Before, they had heard that smuggling was illegal, but they never knew that someone had actually arrested the ship - they knew that smuggling was really illegal.