Chapter 251: Emu War-It is advisable to chase the poor bird-7
With such a guide, Corning no longer needs to deal with this side of the matter personally. He believes that Chen Qiyou will be able to convince the villagers to fix their future on this land.
Later facts proved that although Chen Qiyou was not famous in history, his courageous voice of asking for the people's life was loved by the people, so his prestige among the people was by no means comparable to that of ordinary officials. So his suggestion was quickly echoed by many people.
More and more people from Shandong and nearby are involved in the 41 operations, which are much larger than the previous trips by sea, after all, many people are still afraid of the sea, and this migration is carried out under the aura of mysticism.
Chen Qiyou didn't know why Kang Lin set up these deep chattering things, but he just wanted the people to get the land to support their families, so he didn't pay attention to the propaganda language and some of the rituals before immigration.
And those people only learned about it from the followers of the Black Lotus Sect. The two of them made a gate of the sun. Just walk through that gate and you can see the endless land. It's just that after passing through that gate, the sun, which originally appeared in the south, will often appear in the north.
A lot of people scoff at this statement. But there are also people who want to go and see what is going on, and of course more people care about whether the sun is in the south or in the north, but the vast fields behind that gate.
Coupled with Chen Qiyou's persuasion, there was soon the first group of people who dared to eat crabs. After various religious ceremonies, they passed through the so-called Gate of the Sun, and after being inspected and quarantined, they finally saw the land where the sun rose from the north.
Here, the Ming Dynasty's undersea sun and moon flags are fluttering in the wind, and the soldiers are carrying unfamiliar styles of firearms, shuttling back and forth around, constantly patrolling. And the land they are going to get is just outside this fortress.
The hungry people in Shandong, who are still tested by alcohol, have not seen the clear water of this turquoise hill for a long time. They immediately danced happily, as for what Chen Qiyou next to them said that they still had to obey the management of the imperial court, and they still needed to pay taxes on time, they didn't care about it for a long time.
As long as there is land to plant, what is the value of just paying taxes? They are all law-abiding citizens who know what to do under the rule of the imperial court. If it weren't for the glue, they wouldn't have run away from paying taxes.
After hearing their promises, Chen Qiyou took them to the maps and began to divide the fields according to the standard of thirty or forty acres of land for each adult man. In the past few days, many people have noticed that as the first group of people to come here, they get land that is close to rivers and streams and is easy to irrigate. And those relatively desolate lands should probably be reserved for those who come after.
After the division of the fields was completed, Chen Qiyou took them to receive the farm tools and seeds sponsored by Corning, and made an appointment to sell them to Corning at a relatively low price after the harvest next year.
Then their lives returned to the small-scale peasant economic system with Chinese characteristics. First of all, they would build houses around their fields, and the problem of lack of raw materials and craftsmen was solved by the trading companies of Nature Corning. They would give the farmers who moved here a loan, agreeing to repay a certain weight of a certain crop. If they are not willing to take out loans, they can also work for these trading companies and earn corresponding remuneration. One of the most lucrative jobs during this period was to go back to their hometown through the Sun Gate and recruit their fellow villagers. Corning's trading companies will give them a commission of two cents each.
So they scrambled to return to Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, and as soon as they saw their former countrymen, they praised the place. As long as they are willing to come and have a look, they will immediately be led to the gate of the sun. And their actions are very secretive, after all, they don't want anyone else to know about this way of making money. As a result, Corning has managed to avoid the eyes and ears of many people.
Of course, there were still a lot of spies from all sides who infiltrated the sellers, but Corning also knew that this kind of thing was inevitable. He has long been prepared to deal with this change.
"Tribute!" I see that when you returned to the Ninety-Six Time and Space one time, you told Boss Huang about your idea, "I am going to establish a United Pacific Rim Empire, and you will be the nominal emperor of the empire. Now you quickly comb through the important roles in the group and match them with the right official positions. At the same time, we also have to send a tributary team to the Ming Dynasty to win the canonization and recognition of the Ming emperor, and most importantly, to obtain the right to trade at sea. ”
Boss Huang replied: "It's not difficult to get together the important players in the group. The key question is, who to send to Beijing to pay tribute? ”
"Of course I went."
Boss Huang nodded, since Kang Ning was ready to take the risk himself, he must have thought of an arrangement to retreat. All that's left is one small question: "And what gifts are you going to bring with you?" ”
Corning suddenly grinned, "How's the emus?" ”
Boss Huang was taken aback at first, then smiled awkwardly, and stopped making any remarks on this matter.
Some people don't have to talk more about it, and some people need to do their best in it.
The refugees, who had come here, suddenly heard that the land they had just acquired was being threatened by a flock of strange birds, and they were filled with indignation and took out all kinds of weapons to prepare to meet the enemy. At the same time, Corning's propaganda machine was turning again, and a stone monument was erected next to most of the spontaneously formed villages, with a simple shape of the earth drawn on it, indicating where you are now and the location of the Ming Dynasty.
It was only at this time that the refugees understood. It turned out that they had left the land of the Ming Dynasty and came to the territory of a vassal state that they had never heard of. The king of this vassal state was preparing to go to the city of Beijing to meet the great emperor, and the tribute he was going to bring with him was the name of this strange bird.
The king of the vassal state hoped to be able to obtain a sufficient number of these strange birds in a short period of time. So he issued a bounty order, stipulating that the three strange birds could get one or two pieces of silver.
The refugees who came here were most in need of money, and they all danced with excitement when they heard the news. When they learned that the huge army of strange birds was approaching them, they desperately brought all kinds of farm tools and rushed to the front line to deal with the strange birds.
When Temujin and the others saw this group of new forces joining, I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said in my heart that someone had finally come to share the burden on them. If this group of strange birds washed into the land that had been reclaimed, the damage caused would probably be immeasurable.
In order to get rid of these strange birds as soon as possible, Temujin told the refugees that the meat of these strange birds was very delicious, and you might as well hunt a few and take them to cook.
The grassland people are relatively lacking in cooking methods, so he hopes that the refugees with relatively rich cooking methods can open up another way to eliminate the strange birds, but the refugees ignore his advice, and they hope that these strange birds can help them get money instead of becoming their food.
The Chinese people are not a nation greedy for wealth, but they know that the role of money in social life is far more than consumption, so they are more willing to hoard some wealth in case of emergency.
In order to achieve this goal, not to mention the trivial matter of missing the food, it is to make them pay a greater price, and they are willing to do it, but unfortunately, they obviously do not have any advantage in the fight against these strange birds, and in the end they can only regret to find that if they do not take stronger measures, I am afraid that they will not be able to catch these strange birds, so during this period there will inevitably be casualties on both sides, and the damned farmers are buried on the spot by their partners, and the strange birds that were shot and killed have become their food after all.
It doesn't matter if they eat it, they are really addicted. You must know that these hungry people have been suffering from drought and have not had enough to eat for a long time, I want to say that such delicious meat, even ordinary fruits and vegetables, they have not had the opportunity to see for a long time, and now with such delicious food in front of them, where is the reason to let go?
I don't know when, this group of people's brains suddenly became transparent, and making money left and right was also to buy food to fill their stomachs, so it was better to directly use these strange birds to meet the needs of their own five internal organs.
As a result, the fate of this group of strange birds became tragic, and they became food for this group of refugees from Shandong. The Shandong people already had a lot of food, and the fact that they gathered more and more in this area soon caused the number of strange birds to decrease dramatically. At the same time, the meat of the strange birds has become a good tool for them to promote the place. They brought the meat back to Shandong, claiming that they could eat it as long as they passed through the Gate of the Sun.
So things fell into a vicious circle, and the number of strange birds began to decrease at a faster rate.
Kangning learned of this news not long after, and he never imagined that the foodies of the Celestial Empire would already show their talent for extinction in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. I think that with their help, it will not take long to eat the once-thriving emu Zhong Village to the status of an endangered protected animal.
Anyway, wasn't the dodo eaten and extinct by the foreign devils like this?
Maybe he thinks you should take a step and establish an animal protection system, or else the cute koala will probably be included in the recipe. This was unacceptable to Corning, who could not afford to expose the creature to such an existential threat in the event that the culture represented by the koala would later become an important material for Corning's propaganda tools.