"It's okay to be scolded, but I'm worried about reality. We must do this on a large scale in accordance with the legal principle of the ownership of large farms, land, and natural resources by the whole people. But how do we ensure implementation? The Dutch do not agree, they prefer to draw a circle according to the land and say that it is their own, and the fortress they have built there in Jakarta, where the strait is the necessary route or transit point for our future immigrants. ”

Jian Chen shook his head and said, "Don't worry about this. This land is now given to them for free, and they will not want it. For businessmen, there is no value and no sense here. When there are more people, development, and reclamation here, it will make sense for the merchant republic here, but then it will be too late. They are the motherland of commercial capital, not the motherland of the bottom struggling to survive. Since capital doesn't like the present here, but only likes the future here, we have enough time to hold the future in our hands. ”

A man who had been lying on the grass basking in the sun half-sat up and interjected: "If we want to talk about it, we may not be scolded." Look at the trees and grass, and the latitude here, there won't be a cold winter here. It's so comfortable that you can plow and plant with a columb, a seeder, and a two-horse plough, and you don't even have to care about the sheep, because there are no wolves in those kangaroos. ”

Another retorted: "It's definitely not the immigrants who scolded us." ”

The man laughed, "What I'm saying is that the people who stay in the old place won't scold us." It's so comfortable here, I ask you, with such a nice place and such a vast land, are you willing to farm and herd sheep in the countryside? Or would you rather work in a workshop? ”

"Do you need to ask? Of course, it is more comfortable to be a farmer and herder. ”

"So, the factories, workshops, and mines here can't be built until the population is sufficient. Whoever is not stupid will choose to be a farmer or herdsman. Even if you force him to work with a gun, he will rise up and resist or run away. But idyllic songs also need iron, cloth, farming machinery, and the like, right? Idyllic, some are wool, but no one spun it, so they can only use wool for iron, cloth, and wool. No matter how you look at it, those big workshops in the north will be happy. All we have to do is to implement the policy and take back this money from the workshop owners in the form of taxes in the future, and use it for education, subsidies or relief at the bottom. At the end of the day, even if it is not a country on its borders, it is still a country economically. ”

Lan Qi nodded and added, "I agree with him. With the progress of sailing sailing, the popularity of octanets, and the success of the nautical clock longitude with a large reward for Chen Jian in China, the world will be connected. Our business cannot be confined to a paradise or a dream city, and we will inevitably be swept up in the world. ”

"Once a clock that can maintain a three-minute error on a ship appears, there is no paradise in the world."

"That's why we don't spend all our energy and money on building a dream city on earth, but we spend part of our energy on changing the order in Asia. Either change the world, or be crushed by the ugly, Dutch-Spanish open fire and plundering world order. ”

Jian Chen clapped his hands and smiled: "Actually, I have even thought about criticizing the Netherlands and Spain in the future, and I am waiting for us to gain a firm foothold in Asia and start building momentum - Dutch merchants cut down and burned nutmeg, cardamom and clove trees everywhere for the high price of spices; However, the vast number of people need more spices to improve their living standards, which is contrary to the pursuit of a better life for most people, so we must support the resistance of the local people. In order to monopolize profits, the Spanish royal family strictly prohibited silkworm breeding in the Viceroyalty, and could only buy the raw silk shipped by monopoly at a high price; This is also contrary to the pursuit of a better life for most people, so we must support the local people to resist. ”

"It's a pity that the strength is not good now, so it's not good to shout like this. But one day we got our footing, and when we drove the Dutch out of the Spice Islands, we were going to shout like that. This is consistent with our consistent pursuit, we are not dog-eat-dog, but for the betterment of the world's living standards for more people. ”

"Pen holders and all of you in the propaganda department must remember that you must say so."

"Because we want to establish a new order and new values. Otherwise, if we use interests as the reason, then there will be no justice and injustice - with interests as a means of propaganda, the Dutch lost, only because of their lack of strength, but they did the right thing before, there is no right or wrong for the sake of interests, only victory and defeat - in the end, we win interests, but we lose the right to interpret the world order, and the order and values are still theirs, then we can lose far more than we gain. ”

Speaking of this, everyone also understood that what they and the people around them were going to do was far grander and more magnificent than the vast majority of people in the world thought at this time. It's about shaping a new world, not being a champion in the rules of the old world.

Sitting on the soft pasture, these most romantic young people, with an average age of twenty-eight or nineteen, sat together and enjoyed a rare picnic on the grass. Sitting on the floor, they discussed all the realities and future they would face after returning home.

This kind of seated picnic was fantasized about when they were twenty-three or fourteen years old before they went to sea, but they didn't really have the time and mood to try it until they matured years after they went out to sea.

Slightly drunk people look up at the blue sky and white clouds; Feel the pastures free of mosquitoes, horseflies and gadflys; Feet on soft land that is perfect for reclamation.

Reminiscing about the original intention of coming together because of a dream similar to Xanadu when I was young, I felt the magnificence of Xanadu at my feet but lost interest at this time, and I couldn't help but sing. To the beat, a few younger dancers danced a very traditional dance, treading the soft, plump ground like pork belly, and the grass clippings and dirt thrown under their feet attracted a burst of drunken cheers.

After the commotion, Jian Chen led the men to a low bush and small grass, which burned out a black patch.

A few people took out a few bags of alfalfa seeds that they had been carrying on their backs, and scattered them on the burned land like those slash-and-burn people.

"Out or not, long or not, let it be fate."

Many people muttered and muttered words, and they felt that the scattering of alfalfa seeds was like a custom of farming season handed down by the tribe, perhaps symbolizing the love of the land or the future harvest.

But in fact, Chen Jian felt that anyway, no one would be able to settle here for more than ten years or even decades, and the sunshine, rain and dew were all wasted, so it was better to sprinkle some fertile alfalfa that could fix nitrogen that was not available here.

The climate here is the most suitable for the development of some Mediterranean climate fruit tree plantations, grapes, lemons, which in the future can be used both as pasture land and as a production area for cash crops.

Anyway, alfalfa is an alien species here, there are no natural enemies such as aphids, the only enemy is the local weeds, competing with each other for living space, if you have the opportunity to come and see it in a few decades, there will be a feeling of vicissitudes.

After the seeds were sown in the sky, the expedition along the river valley was over. Returning to the mouth of the Black Swan River, everyone had refilled the boiling fresh water, and rested at the mouth for a few days just as a vacation, drunk every day.

Chen Jian selected three pairs of domestic pigs, a bull and three cows, and eight sheep and released them along the Black Swan River.

He took out another box of dung beetles, which had been prepared earlier, and threw it near the dung of the herd.

There are no natural predators here, short-tailed wallabies will only sell cuteness, wolves and foxes have not been for tens of millions of years, and these pigs, cattle and sheep that have been laid down now will soon be full of wildness, adding some vitality to this empty grassland.

These domestic animals, which have been jolting around the ship for a long time, seem to have forgotten how to survive in the wild, but it doesn't matter. This is not a wild place, just a vast breeding house of 10,000 square kilometers. It is enough to be able to eat, drink, and reproduce, not to mention avoiding predators, and even the role of the cow's tail can be degraded - there are no large vampire gadflies here for the time being.

Wild boars, bison and wild sheep may be rampant in a few decades, but then the immigrants of one of the most foodie ethnicities will come here, and they will take care of the ecological balance and provide some food for the first settlers.

After a few days, after resting, I regained my spirits and calmed down my boredom with the boundless sea, and then I re-boarded the ship.

This is just the coast of Australia on the Indian Ocean, of course, it will not be called Australia at this time or in the future, but translated into Chinese, Chen Jian has already thought about how to translate.

The black swans seen at the estuary can be translated as black birds for short, black is Xuan, and exports are sold domestically and then turned back to be Xuanniao. Xuanniao and Suzaku are both birds, and Suzaku is in charge of the south, and at the same time, according to the Five Elements Theory, Suzaku has the meaning of summer, which is just reversed from winter and summer in the north. It is also said that the Vermilion Bird is colorful, and the aurora can still be seen in southern Australia, and the description is basically the same. As the so-called Heavenly Destiny Xuanniao, descending to give birth to business, Jian Di swallowed the five-colored Xuanniao eggs to give birth to a business contract.

Whether it is called Vermilion Bird Continent, Yin Continent, Qizhou Continent, Lingguang Continent, Ganbu Continent, or some other name, that will be discussed later.

When he was about to set sail, Lan Qi looked at the black swan with shortened wings that Lin Xi had brought onto the boat, and suddenly thought of something, and said with a smile: "Count, if there is a tribute next time and the relationship with the Ming Empire royal family needs to be maintained, this black swan can be used as a tribute." ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "Well, it's really rare. ”

Lan Qi smiled: "It's not rare, Zhuangzi said: The husband and the hoof are white without bathing, and black without the sun." This can tell them that the words of the ancients are not necessarily unchangeable. It's just that there's something particularly strange about me. ”

"What's wrong?"

"Why when I read books like Zhuangzi with Lin Zigui in Wangbei City, I really heard many stories, like chapters like Qiushui, which are exactly the same as those stories in books hundreds of years ago, except that they are in literary language rather than vernacular. Is there such a coincidence? Or is it ...... Did our ancestors really migrate from here? ”

Shaking his head suspiciously, he suddenly asked, "Do you know what the next sentence about swans and crows is?" ”

"Mutual affection, such as forgetting each other in the rivers and lakes. Do you want to ask him which is more important, the Taoism or the survival of the peoples? The Emperor will not answer. ”