Hearing the envoy say this, Jiang Zhili's heart also became active. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info It seems that I thought too much about it before, this group of people is different from those Hongyi Fanbang after all, and they won't do such a thing as robbing while the fire is hot.

The envoy said, "Mr. Lizhi, Governor Chen Jian also said that after the catastrophe, it is the time to show the grace of heaven. Nowadays, the rice market must be expensive, and if it is forced to parity, the merchant will simply sell it. The only way to stop it is by transporting the rice there. Otherwise, you will force the price of rice to fall, and there will only be no rice to buy in the market. ”

Jiang Zhili snorted and said, "As your governor said, I still have to agree to enter the port?" ”

The envoy also smiled and said: "The peace of more than 100,000 people in several counties in Quanzhou, of course, is only in Mr. Lizhi's words. Besides, our country is tens of thousands of miles away, and this people are not our people, so it is naturally up to the herdsmen to decide whether to enter or not. I heard Mr. Chen say that there is a saying that everyone has compassion, even if they are thousands of miles away, who does not have parents, wives and children? Who can be indifferent to see his wife scattered and starving? ”

"Everyone has compassion. You have no knowledge of saints, and you have such thoughts? ”

Mr. Tachizhi laughed, could it be that without the learning of the saints, he would kill his parents so as not to waste food? People are not beasts, could it be that people here are beasts before becoming saints? ”

"Presumptuous!"

The messenger was not afraid, and said with a smile: "Before I came, Mr. Chen told me that Mr. Lizhi would not refuse. First of all, you have a good official reputation, and you have already inquired, if you are a corrupt official, we will have compassion, and we don't need to be so troublesome, what can't we do if gold and silver are smashed? Besides, even if you don't agree, is it possible that there will be no businessmen going to sea to load? At that time, it will benefit the rich merchants, but the people will suffer, but we will not bear to do so with good thoughts. If it is also presumptuous to have compassion for others, then I can go back and ask the person who writes the history of Bing to write down the history of our country: year, month and day, the earthquake in Quanzhou in Mingzhou, the envoy of our country could not bear to starve, and transported rice, and Jiang Zhili, the herd of Ranzhou, ......"

When Jiang Zhili heard this, his previous anger disappeared a little, not only was he angry but he was too angry, and he actually laughed.

Looking at this envoy who was neither humble nor arrogant, he smiled and said, "That's it, you don't understand the words of the saints, and I don't care about you." Where, then, is your satrap's fleet? I personally set up a boat to visit the meeting. ”

"It's a hundred miles away at sea. Under the laws of our country, all offshore islands are territorial waters within 100 miles, and no passage is allowed without consent. ”

Jiang Zhili originally thought about educating and educating this person, but when he thought about it, it was boring to think about these battles of tongues, so he stopped talking about it, and was going to go to sea to see Chen Jian.

He is still a good official after all, and Chen Jian can be regarded as doing what he likes, and he is the same as Gao Huan, but the means used are very different.

At this time, Jian Chen was indeed at sea, but as Jiang Zhili thought, he did not come here after hearing about the earthquake here, but began to prepare as early as the end of June when he sent an envoy.

The Quanzhou earthquake was a major event, and it was also the starting point for a series of Quanzhou people to go to Taiwan to reclaim the land, and Chen Jian had to manage his relationship with Quanzhou officials.

Yuegang is a treaty port, and Quanzhou is gradually declining and there is not much arable land, and it is closer to Penghu Taiwan.

At the beginning of June, he sent people to stay in Ayutthaya to continue the dispute with Thailand, and he began to buy rice and lime from Ayutthaya's trading house, as well as some medicinal materials to prevent plague and miasma.

The maritime merchant had already told Chen Jian about the situation of the sailors, and Chen Jian did not miss the opportunity, and when he sent an envoy to Zhangzhou and Fuzhou to make trouble, he took the opportunity of the sailor to take advantage of the sailor's departure to go to Taiwan for a turn.

Tributary trade is not something that a governor can decide, it must be reported, and Chen Jian estimates that the time for reporting will not be until the end of August, and even if everything goes well, it will not be until next year.

There are a lot of things that can be done in this year, but it also needs a place to dock, and it is impossible for him to dock in the port of Daming without authorization, after all, this is a warship, not a simple merchant ship. The money that should be used for bribes and should not be used is purely wasteful, and it is inevitable that we will occupy Taiwan and do something, so of course we must make plans in advance.

Chen Jian still has confidence in the matter of tributary trade, at least he wants to have confidence. After all, this is the ethnic group to which they belong, and they will not make a Ming Dynasty Magalni incident and hate it for eternity, and they have brought flintlock pistols, regimental field guns, looms, math books, matches and hot air balloons, which should not not be ignored.

I just don't know if those bigwigs who are busy fighting for the country and the demon book case are interested. Firearms master Zhao Shizhen is about to die of worry, Sun Yuanhua is still studying elementary geometry in Shanghai, and Li Zhizao is not in the capital but digging a river in Jining.

For this tributary trade trip, Chen Jian also took great pains. On the one hand, the pride of the nation made him emotionally believe that he would not make the Ming Dynasty version of Magalny, and on the other hand, the rationality of interest analysis made him believe that this time it would be difficult to resist.

In order to make all preparations, this sea trip from Ayutthaya also hired some local Chinese and maritime merchants who could write traditional Chinese, and every day he interpreted and these people translated the things that should be translated, as well as some various books brought from China.

From the "Geometric Algebra" he sorted out to the "Inductive Summary and Logical Deduction" that he first wrote to his husband; From the engineering of water conservancy construction to the accounting manual of money and grain calculation accounts; From the breeding science of improved breeding to the summary of several classic battles of the War of Unification decades ago......

Constantly translating carefully selected things by mouth during the day, and trying to practice writing traditional characters at night, have caused dissatisfaction among many people on board, and some of them are extremely dissatisfied.

When the feudal state was written like that, Chen Jian had already withstood the tremendous pressure of some people in the fleet, knowing that it was still easy to be picked out and rejected by writing like that, but this was already the limit.

He has to consider the feelings of these people, because a person can't do anything, and he needs the help of these people. The national-minded republic is deeply xenophobic, and this exclusivity is divided not by ethnicity but by the ethnicity of the community. These people, too, have dignity and face, and it is impossible for them to learn from the Ryukyus to write a letter of submission professing to be submissive, and in that case, the news will spread and return to the country will be a radical bullet.

There are mercenary merchants in the fleet, but there are also young officers and young men who can sacrifice for glory, and some things are really difficult to balance.

If this trade request is denied, whoever becomes the governor of this part of Asia will do something that Chen Jian does not want to see, which is where the interest lies.

Now the initiative is still in their own hands for the time being, but once the situation cannot be opened, the initiative will fall into the hands of others, and I am afraid that some of the things that the colonists should do at this time will be done, and then the trouble will be big - colonization also needs scientific management, and the tools have been learned, and they will only be more convenient to use, softer, more delicate, and more aggressive.

By putting the magic stick in the guise of science, Chen Jian took out everything he could rely on, and the history he knew from then on was no longer meaningful.

At this time, Jian Chen was also restless, and it was not until he received the news that Jiang Zhili came in person that he could be regarded as settling down.

It's business as usual, let the soldiers line up on the deck to welcome and greet with guns.

Jiang Zhili also knew that he represented the dignity of the Heavenly Empire, holding his head high, as if he couldn't hear the gunshots, but in his heart he was secretly surprised by the sharpness of firearms and the size of the boat.

Chen Jian led the crowd to greet them, and saluted, I don't know how to call them, after all, there has never been a country with a neck that has to say that countries have equal exchanges with each other.

This issue is not debated for the time being, Chen Jian said that it is called so according to the order of the elderly, and they call each other Mr., and Jiang Zhili did not refuse.

After the ceremony, he entered the cabin, and was already preparing for the banquet, and sat down in accordance with domestic etiquette, and Chen Jian introduced everyone at the banquet one by one.

There is a good introduction to the official identity, and the official names are all nondescript things copied from the beginning, and the envoys are nothing more than outsiders and the like.

Because of Lan Qi and Lin Xi's performance in the smallpox epidemic in the capital, their status was not low among the crowd, and they sat down in three or four places, which made Jiang Zhili quite puzzled.

At first, I thought it was a singer, but it didn't look like it, and the man sitting under these two women was also at ease, and there was no look that couldn't get by.

But Jiang Zhili still couldn't stand it after all, and said with a smile: "The universe is outlined, the people are regular, and the country of Er lives in the far west, isn't it that Si Chen's in the country is actually a chicken?" ”

Jian Chen secretly wiped a handful of sweat, hurriedly turned around and said to those people, "He asked why you sat under the two women?" ”

The person sitting in the back said a few words, and Jian Chen explained again, and Jiang Zhili nodded and said, "It turned out to be a righteous concubine in the extreme west, which is also understandable." ”

Lan Qi obviously didn't know who the righteous concubine was, and she didn't understand the chicken too much, but after so long, she also understood Jiang Zhili's meaning, and glanced at Chen Jian who was obviously translating indiscriminately with dissatisfaction, and said with a straight face: "Mr. Jiang is just a herd in Quanzhou, and the people are 100,000." However, the sister next to me tried the medicine herself, so that millions of people in the country were no longer afraid of smallpox; Although I couldn't do it, I also organized friends to go deep into the epidemic area during the epidemic in the national capital, so that the epidemic would not spread. If you talk about merit, I'm afraid you are not qualified to say what kind of chicken we are. It's not too late to say when you'll be able to do something that benefits millions. In our country, hundreds of years ago, when the country was founded, it was rumored that women could hold up half the sky, go out with the army to treat wounded soldiers, teach Mengtong to read and write, and deliver children to increase the population. Mr. Jiang's words are boring, so don't mention them again. ”

Jian Chen coughed lightly, and said in his heart that this was also a trouble. I'm afraid that even if they can trade, women will definitely not be able to go ashore, and he was originally going to take Lan Qi to see the land system here, but now it seems that he will not have this opportunity.

Jiang Zhili had never seen such a woman in public, his face changed slightly, but fortunately, he was diverted from the topic by Jian Chen.

After diverging the topic, Jian Chen didn't directly talk about trade or rice, knowing that people at this time were talking about the world, so he asked, "Does Mr. Jiang know the world at this time?" ”

"The white bones of Banju are still there, the blood of Busan has not dried up, it is the reign of the Holy Son of Heaven, and the four seas are leveled."

"Chixian Shenzhou is the four seas of the world, but if you talk about the great Kyushu in the world, I am afraid that you can't even talk about the Spring and Autumn Period, but it is like the Warring States in the world of great contention. Rude, no joy and no Zhou Tianzi, only the Western Qin Ruishi and Hu Fu rode and shot, Li Kui changed the law and Shang Yang was Qin ......"

took out a very thin booklet from behind him and said: "This is a book of "Great Kyushu Sea Country Chronicles", which has not yet been written, only about Helan and Fulangji. If Mr. Jiang is interested, he may wish to take a look. In particular, "Pizarro" and "Drakele" are the most exciting. See how Francois conquered a continent with a country of counties, tens of millions of people, and even traveled thousands of miles to supervise Luzon. Na and Lan are only two counties of the country, but they are also thousands of miles away, with more than 15,000 boats, and only one percent of them have reached Penghu. Mr. Jiang asked himself, if war broke out at this time, the Fujian Navy might be better than the navy of Helan? In the past, Qin was only a vassal, and there was no title; In the past, Aguta hunted in the mountains, and there was only one chief; In the past, Temujin was trapped in the grassland, herding sheep and horses......"