While the envoys of Sunpu Castle were still communicating with Tokugawa Ieyasu, Ken Chen was ready to return to Wangbei Castle from the Ryukyus. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The ships of the Satsuma Domain's naval forces picked out some that could be repaired and overhauled them in Naha Port. Of the more than 200 small boats, only thirty or fifty can be used, all of which are very small in tonnage, and they are all typical Japanese ships.

Although loading or naval battles in the open sea is not suitable, it should not be a problem to load people across the Taiwan Strait, and there is no one to load when you go back, most of them are carrying rice or dried sweet potatoes.

Chen Jian asked King Shangning for the cost of sending troops to relieve the danger was not high, and only King Shangning needed to pay with rice. The contrast caused by the burning and looting of the Satsuma clan also made the people of Ryukyu have a lot of good feelings about this army that was bought with money and did not have large-scale robbery and rape.

Before leaving, Chen Jian bought some grain from Ryukyu in the form of credit purchase, although the grain production of Ryukyu itself is not high, but there are still a lot of various scholars who have gathered together.

When he went back, the Ryukyu tribute envoy also borrowed Chen Jian's ship to go to Fujian together, and went to Beijing to pay tribute to thank the Ming Dynasty for sending troops, and by the way, in the name of thanks, it was difficult to refuse to pay tribute again.

When the fleet returned to Wangbei City, it was already June, and as soon as it landed, some people who stayed in Wangbei City hurriedly found Chen Jian.

"I just got the news that there was a flood in Fujian."

This is what Chen Jian explained before leaving, this time he didn't do a magic stick, he only said to pay attention to the situation in Fujian, and deal with it immediately if there is any problem.

Unless the weather is good, a random disaster with the productivity and scattered smallholder farming at this time can cause thousands of victims, especially when the grassroots organizations have completely collapsed and it is difficult to build water conservancy.

The people who came to Chen Jian to tell him the news didn't care about the outcome at all, or didn't need to care about an inevitable thing, but were extremely concerned about the flood.

Whether it is out of pity for the fate of the common people in the world, or because the profit of land rent is higher than trade when there is enough land and population, this flood in Fujian must be taken seriously in Wangbei City.

Chen Jian is still clear about his family background, the grain prepared for the famine since last year and the rice bought from various places at any expense have accumulated for more than a year, and the 20,000 or 30,000 people who fled this time are still enough to support until next year.

In fact, there can be more, but if you take this opportunity to make a fortune and sell some rice at a high price, you can recover the principal, so you can only choose to take in 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Hearing this definite news, Jian Chen called several officers accompanying the ship and some people in charge of civil affairs in Wangbei City to prepare for the celebration of this great victory, and to display a large number of heads salted with salt and lime that they had brought back. Many of the first residents of Wangbei City were from Quanzhou, so they knew a lot about the Japanese Kou, but if they were people from other places, it would have no effect.

He was no longer in charge of the matter, and summoned some of the management of the city and the ship with him, and secretly discussed the problem of taking advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune, to gain fame, and to attract the victims of the disaster who had come to the northern city.

The statistician, who was made a cameo by the company's accountant, first talked about the situation of grain stocks.

"That's basically all there is to it. After removing the rations and the rice sold at a high price for the purchase of cattle and iron tools in the future, we can accommodate up to two or five thousand people. ”

The row of people sitting there looked at the number and asked, "Judging by this number, we can contain more appropriately." 30,000 to 40,000 shouldn't be a problem, right? ”

"No, I can't. Forty thousand is the limit, according to the situation that these people will grow sweet potatoes after they come, and there will be no famine and calamity on our side. But we can't do that, if we have a problem here, I'm afraid that there will be a large-scale revolt from these 40,000 people, and everything we have accumulated before will be wiped out, so we must leave a margin. ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "I agree." The margin must be set aside. The problem now is that more than 20,000 people will inevitably come into conflict with the local community and the indigenous people. There is only so much good land for the best of the world, and it is inevitable. ”

The young man who had opposed Chen Jian several times before smiled: "It's simple. We can instigate the contradictions between the Ming people and the aborigines, and we will mediate in the middle. In this way, they hate each other, and both of them must be reconciled to us. ”

Before Jian Chen could object, Lan Qi shook her head and said, "No." Leaving aside for the moment that this is something we cannot agree with, let's talk about the most practical benefits. Unlike the homeland, the people here are organized together in the form of clans, and if you instigate conflicts between the two sides, the power of the clan will only become more and more stable, and it is not a good choice from the perspective of interests alone. It is true that this form of organization is not enough to fight the army, but it does not need to rely on us when fighting for issues such as land and water. The aborigines are also village communities, and the form is similar. ”

Jian Chen smiled: "Okay, that's what we should say, we have to set the foundation first when we discuss anything." If you talk about interests and I talk about morality, it must be that the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother says that the mother is reasonable, and there is no way to fight for it. So today we will only talk about interests, not the rest. ”

suppressed the dissatisfaction of the two parties, and the people in the party knew that Chen Jian would definitely stand on his side, and because Chen Jian wanted to talk about interests, it was a big step.

"Let's put it this way, labor creates wealth, and we must get it from this wealth if we want to get profit. Now, what is most lacking here is population, how can no one create profits? Next to it is Fujian, and our homeland is tens of thousands of miles away, everyone knows that in less than 20 years, the Ming people here will far surpass those aborigines. There's no doubt about that, right? ”

Everyone nodded, and Jian Chen said again: "If we instigate the contradictions between the two sides, although they need to get along with us for the time being, they will definitely resent in their hearts, which is not a long-term solution." And we are here, whether it is trade or armed guards, we must use a large number of Ming people, which is the most cost-effective way. Therefore, it is better to make it easy for them to develop a sense of alienation and resentment from us, which is the long-term solution. ”

"You also know that we also have a lot of aborigines on the other side of the Great Wilderness City, but there are slaves there, and a large number of slaves are the labor we need, so the methods over there can be more drastic, relying on slaves to oppose the original masters. However, the aboriginal villages and communities here are all equal to each other, and it is difficult to carry out some activities within them, so as to use the class to create hatred within them and divide them. ”

"So, the easiest way to deal with the aborigines here is to assimilate with the advantages of culture, because our culture is originally strong. They are still slash-and-burn, and we can send people to their villages to guide them in planting and let them settle down. Originally, slash-and-burn cultivation required a lot of land, but after cultivation, much less land will be needed, so that the conflict will not be so intensified for the time being. ”

"If something goes wrong, we must follow the laws we have formulated, so that their identification with the village community and the clan will be weaker than their identification with the law. Now that we have been here for so long, many of us have learned some aboriginal languages. Teach them to farm, concentrate the children there to go to school, allow them to continue to take village self-government, respect their priestesses. ”

"Once they're in, we can earn what we want from currency and things like iron, cloth, salt, which they scarce."

Without waiting for everyone to raise any questions, Chen Jian said: "Let me tell you the truth, the prospecting team has found a lot of mineral deposits in the mountains, including coal, sulfur and gold, and there are quite a lot of them. ”

As soon as these words came out, many people buzzed, and their eyes turned green when they heard gold.

"The reason why I didn't tell you for the time being is because I am afraid that everyone will leak the news. After all, Wangbei City is on lease from us, and once the news spreads, we will be very passive. The Ming Kingdom in the north is mining everywhere and has sent a lot of mine supervisors, so it will be difficult for us to gain a foothold here when the news spreads. ”

Everyone also understood the key, and the participants were all their own people from a certain angle, and the discussion gradually became much quieter.

"People sitting here, for different purposes. There are interests, there are beliefs, and there are other things. If we want to gain a foothold here, we must unite with each other, and any contradiction will make our foothold extremely difficult. Our differences can be discussed later, but if we expand our differences now, we will not be able to talk about these two words in the future. ”

"It can be said that our views on many issues are conflicting, and this conflict has begun to accumulate since the ends of the earth. Perhaps because of these incidents, some of you who originally had a lot of opinions about me have begun to trust me, but the essential conflict has not been resolved. ”

"We can't reason with each other, and we can't reason with each other. There is a basis for reasoning, we agree that one plus one equals two, and you agree that one plus one equals three, then many of the problems after that are not reasonable, but become quarrels. ”

"The things in our party have our own way of discussing them, and that's because we agree on the same or at least similar basis. But regardless of my status in the party, I am still the commander-in-chief of the fleet this time. Now, as far as the entire fleet is concerned, before returning from here to my homeland, I would like your authorization: I have absolute command, subject to the interests and betrayal of the Race. Unless it involves ethnic interests and betrayal, there is no need to be questioned or questioned. ”

"It's urgent, and now is the most important year for us to establish ourselves here and for the future exploitation of those minerals and future trade. And with the end of the Battle of the Ryukyus, our trip to the capital of the Ming Kingdom was basically confirmed. So now I want you to grant me that right. ”

"If something goes wrong, I will personally explain it to the National People's Assembly after returning to China, and I will also take responsibility for it personally."