These two Westerners are the Cervantes couple from France. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

His current status is the deputy director and technician of the experimental farm. His previous identity was that of Bukui's exile. Further back, they are missionaries.

Originally, they were missionaries in the south, but because their missionary activities in the area developed so rapidly that they were falsely accused of being a cult, the government exiled them to Bukui in a daze.

Now, it has been more than three years since they arrived in Bukui.

After Jia Min arrived here, he heard about the couple. Although he was not interested in religion, he admired the spirit of the missionary.

At times, he even felt like a missionary, so he was very sympathetic to the Cervantes.

In addition to the identity of the Sevantes, another factor that attracted Jia Min's attention was that they themselves grew tobacco here.

This Cervante is a very experienced person. Before coming to Middle-earth, he went to Brazil in South America as a missionary. In Brazil, the indigenous people have been found to have a habit of smoking. So he brought tobacco seeds and smoking methods back to France, and wrote a book to promote tobacco.

Previously, France's ambassador to Portugal, Nicotte, was also promoting tobacco and boasting that it could cure diseases.

Since then, tobacco has spread to the rest of the world with European traders and seafarers.

In the era of the Red Chamber, tobacco was already being cultivated in coastal areas such as Guangdong and Fujian in the south, which was transmitted from Luzon.

However, there were no cigarettes in this era, and people still smoked snuff, hookah, and hand-rolled cigarettes.

After Jia Min learned that Cervante had successfully planted tobacco here, he transferred him to the experimental farm and asked him to be responsible for summarizing the experience of planting tobacco on a large scale, as well as the method of tobacco roasting, and the seeds were propagated to prepare for large-scale promotion next year.

At the same time, the domestication of reindeer and mink was also handed over to them.

These projects were chosen because they are all high value-added projects.

Compared with bulk goods such as grain, the advantages of tobacco, in addition to the high price, are also because of the characteristics of relatively light, small volume, long shelf life, and small loss, which has a huge advantage in the quality and price of goods. This makes it feasible and economical to transport long distances.

Deer antler velvet and mink are among the three treasures of the Kanto region, and they occupy an important place in Bukyu's foreign trade every year, and have a vast market in the outside world.

If these technologies are popularized in Bukui, in addition to increasing the income of Bukui Guanzhuang, the technology can also be passed on to the outside world, so that the local people can also benefit.

Previously, Bukui Yamen was in the local area, and there was almost no source of tax revenue.

The so-called tax collection is nothing more than getting a group of soldiers, setting up cards on the road, and collecting some money from the merchants.

It's not so much about collecting taxes as it is about buying road money. It's no different from a roadblock.

So far, the military expenses of the Bukui army and the expenses of the Bukui Yamen have been the military expenses given by the imperial court and the production income of the exiles.

However, the current cost is far from enough for the army's expenses, so the money spent now, in addition to getting back from the Qian family, is his own private money.

Such a source is destined to be unsustainable. Besides, he is defending the border for the imperial court, why should he pay money out of his own pocket?

If you don't want to put money in it, you can only spend that little military spending. However, that little military expenditure was only enough for the most basic expenses of the army, and if you want to train and improve your equipment, you will have no money.

Therefore, if you want to maintain an elite army, you need more money to support it. At this time, a stable source of revenue, such as taxation, is very important.

Seeing Jia Min coming, the Cervantes stopped what they were doing.

"Jia Dusi, welcome here."

After seeing the ceremony, Jia Min followed the Cervantes into their house.

Now, the couple has two rooms of their own, and they have painted their own idols and are ready to worship.

There is a fireplace in the house, you can bake bread, you can cook your own food, and you can cook according to your own eating habits. Here, there is no need to be controlled by the head of the village as in Guanzhuang before, and even when you go to Bukui and other outside places, you can move freely by yourself, and no one will take care of them.

Therefore, they are now living a relatively free and dignified decent life.

This made them full of gratitude to Jia Min.

"Mr. Sevante, I have asked someone to inquire about your case for you, but it may take a long time. I hope you guys will give me some time. If it is indeed someone else who frames you, I will do my best to help you clear your name. ”

"Then thank you, Jadusi. In fact, I am already very grateful to you for treating us like this now. ”

"What you are doing now is very meaningful for Bukui's future, and it is appropriate to give you some preferential treatment. Du Qingshan, if Mr. Cervante has any difficulties, you must help solve them in time. If you can't solve it, you can go directly to me. ”

"Yes, Commander Min."

While a few people were chatting, they heard a howl outside, followed by a loud shouting and swearing. Then, there was another knock on the door.

Probably someone came over and reprimanded him, and the voice was quiet.

"Is that Huaju still closed?"

"Yes, I was released a few days ago, and I wanted to run again, but I had no choice, so I had to be locked up again."

"Still shouting that he was wronged all day long and scolding Cong Xiucai?"

"Isn't it, as soon as you release it, you have to run, or you pretend to be crazy and stupid, eat dung, see who scolds whom, and go to Cong Xiucai to fight hard."

"Just lock him up, just like him, even if we let him go, he won't be able to pass two levels, and he will have to be caught. Here, he can still be kept alive. ”

This flower lifter is also a character.

Hua Ju's name is Hua Yusheng, and sixteen years ago, he was exiled here because he was involved in the Xinyou scientific research case.

In the year of Xinyou, after the Jinling Science Field, someone reported that the scientific expedition was collectively cheating. The first emperor ordered the Criminal Department and the Jinling Prefect to conduct a thorough investigation, but the result was that there was no evidence.

After the conclusion came out, more than a dozen people jointly reported that the Criminal Department and the Jinling Prefect had engaged in favoritism and malpractice.

The first emperor was furious, so he issued an order to lock all the 300 people who participated in the imperial examination to the imperial capital. In the Taihe Palace, the emperor personally invigilated the exam.

Those who failed the exam were all stripped of their fame, and more than a dozen people had relatively high grades before, but this time their scores were low, so they were considered to have cheated before, so they were exiled to Bukui.

Cong Xiucai was also one of the victims of the imperial examination case.

Cong Xiucai was originally from the imperial capital, and his father was a magistrate in Jinling at that time, so he participated in the Xinyou scientific expedition in Jinling. In the emperor's re-examination, his results were better than the original, and he could have participated in the examination, but in the end, he gave up.

According to his own words, it was because he was locked by the emperor and taken to the imperial capital for a retest, and he felt insulted, so he was disappointed in his career.

According to Cong Xiucai, the accusation of cheating was purely false. It cannot even be ruled out that someone deliberately framed it.

As for who framed it, no one knows so far.

This Huaju man was also among the three hundred at that time. This person is arrogant, informal, and thinks he has some talent, so he doesn't take the world in his eyes.

was accused of fraud in the field and locked up the imperial capital, thinking that he had suffered a great shame, so in the re-examination of the former emperor, he did not answer angrily and handed in a blank paper in protest.

Where would the emperor get used to his problem, so he was exiled to Bukui.

Before that retest, Hua Yusheng encouraged everyone to hand in the blank papers collectively. Naturally, few people listened to him. At that time, Cong Xiu was his only friend and also participated in the answer. He thought that Cong Xiucai had betrayed him.

Therefore, after arriving at Bu Kui, he didn't dare to scold the emperor, so he poured his anger on Cong Xiucai and those who answered the questionnaire.

So he cursed every day, especially Cong Xiucai.

Over the years, Cong Xiucai also felt a little guilty, and often brought him some silver taels. He accepted the silver, but he still scolded Cong Xiucai.

This time, Cong Xiucai brought craftsmen and farmers here, just to take the opportunity to see his friends, stay and run a school, and also to accompany his friends.

Cong Xiucai saw Hua Yusheng, he still scolded Cong Xiucai, and then Cong Xiucai came to see him again, he never saw him again, and broke off his friendship with Cong Xiucai.

Cong Xiucai came here for another purpose, that is, to ask Jia Min to help Hua Yusheng overturn the case. For this reason, Cong Xiucai knelt for Jia Min for an hour in Jia Min's office.

Jia Min was certainly willing to help Cong Xiucai, but Hua Yusheng was sentenced to exile from death. In other words, he was originally guilty of a capital crime, and the emperor spared him a life.

Although he left a life, he could only be exiled for life in this life.

If you want to overturn the case for him, it is an impossible task for Jia Min to complete.

Sixteen years have passed since this case, and the people involved in the case have long since disappeared. Even if it is a false accusation, it is a matter of fact, and no witness can be found.

Moreover, this case was a case approved by the emperor back then, even if there was some evidence, who would dare to review it? Even the current emperor will not easily overturn the case decided by the previous emperor.

Because he is a scholar, even if he is an exile, he is very respected in Bukui. Not to mention those exiles, even the head of the village, when they saw the exiles who were scholars, they had to dismount and salute.

When distributing labor, we also try to take care of them and give them light work and beautiful work. Some of them were invited to their homes by officials to teach their children and treat them with courtesy.

Only this sound of flower rain is unruly, no one is pleasing to the eye, and everyone scolds him, so everyone respects him and stays away.

It's just because he is a scholar that people generally don't embarrass him. If it had been someone else, he would have been tortured to death.

Jia Min certainly sympathizes with Hua Yusheng, but all he can do is give him a little better treatment, don't have to do any work for him, let him eat and live well.

If you think about it, the Cervantes may have been wronged, but they have adopted a different attitude to life. Compared with the sound of flowers and rain, Jia Min could only shake his head secretly.