A few days later, an expedition of more than 300 people set out under the leadership of Chen Jian. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Be cautious, carry muskets and explosives, as well as short swords in case of unexpected events such as rain.

This time, there were basically no living creatures in the fleet except for people, only four horses as seeds, and Chen Jian was reluctant to ride.

After estimating the productivity level here, it is estimated that a broken axe and hammer can be regarded as a divine weapon. As for glass mirrors, glass beads, glasses, spirits and the like, they can all be considered priceless.

More than 300 people each carried something, and after paying dozens of catties of dry cakes to the village community, they happily found four aborigines to lead the way.

In a few days, Jian Chen also learned a lot of simple vocabulary, and he was able to communicate to some extent by relying on gestures.

Most of the expeditions were young people, and this wonderful expedition to a foreign land for the first time gave them a special mentality.

On the way, a few crocodiles were shot with muskets, and the guide who led the way was shocked and prayed again and again that it was the wrath of God.

In his eyes, it was not a musket, but a thunderbolt that could wrath and clouds roll.

Several people skinned crocodiles and ate a meal of crocodile meat for lunch.

"There's a lot of wildlife here, and every year you can make a lot of money selling furs, crocodile skins and other goods. In the homeland is still very in-demand goods. ”

The people of the expedition team talked like this, and Chen Jian stared at the huge crocodile head, thinking in his heart that now that the chili pepper is also available, he can taste the chopped pepper crocodile head.

He didn't care much about goods such as furs, and as long as paper money was spread in the colonies, based on physical tools, he could get a steady stream of silver coins every year.

I inspected the land here, it is very fertile, and according to the guide, the annual rain is abundant, and it is also seasonal.

It is more suitable for growing cash crops such as tobacco, indigo and cotton, and a little further north, if the land is still so fertile, it is a perfect commercial grain base for corn and wheat.

The people here should know about the existence of copper, because they were all at a loss when Jian Chen took out the iron tools, but they kept repeating a word for some bronze objects, which seemed to have been seen.

From the living conditions of those people in the villages, it can be roughly inferred that this should be in the era of slavery, and those natural village communities are called to pay a large amount of tribute in kind every year, they are not slaves, but they are not much better than slaves.

In other words, the yield of foods such as sweet potatoes and corn is acceptable, and the land is fertile, so it can ensure food and clothing under extremely inefficient planting conditions.

As the expedition progressed, the traces of slavery became more apparent, and some large tracts of land were filled with people working together and growing a variety of crops from this side.

The expedition also attracted more and more attention, and many people stopped and looked curiously at the group of people who were dressed and dressed completely differently from them, but looked about the same color, and were full of curiosity about the muskets they carried, the octagonal hats they carried, and some small pendants.

Finally, a road worthy of a road appeared in front of the expedition, and a city made of wood and stone stood before the eyes of the expedition.

The people of the city, who had already received the news, arrived outside the city early, and gathered an army of hundreds of men, armed with wooden spears or sticks.

Some were clad in rhinoceros or crocodile armor, and in their hands they held well-polished stone weapons, or a bronze spear or a very short sword, or a bow and arrow with stone arrows.

Chen Jian saw a few horses, and behind the horses were very primitive chariots, which did not look like they were used for impact, but should only be used for riding.

Hundreds of soldiers are generally surrounded by stars and moons, about thirty or forty years old, extremely majestic, this should be the lord of this city, can also be called the king or Fang Bo, in short, it will not be the leader, after all, it is already a country or a city-state.

The king was surrounded by nobles or priests, who seemed to have gold or bronze ornaments to symbolize their noble status.

Jian Chen estimated the size of the city, and estimated that there were only a few thousand people in the city, not counting the slaves, but only the people in the city, which was also quite a large city.

The people of the expedition team clenched the muskets in their hands, and they were not afraid, if they really wanted to fight, their three hundred men could wipe out the opposing army in an instant.

The guide ran over, knelt before the king, muttered something, and kept gesturing with his hands.

It could be seen that the faces of the king and the noble priests around him had become extremely ugly, and there was a trace of fear.

After waiting for a long time, a man who was supposed to be a priest stepped forward and walked between the two groups.

Jian Chen also stepped out, and after saluting with the etiquette he had learned, he took out a balance from his pocket behind him.

On one side of the scale, a corn cob was placed, and on the other side of the scale, a handful of wheat was not there.

The simple action finally made the other side understand that Jian Chen meant to trade.

The priest went back and said a few words, and the king said something more, and the guide got up from the ground and gestured to tell Jian Chen that the king had allowed the trade, but could not enter the city, only outside the city gate.

Jian Chen hurriedly took out a transparent glass, a bottle of old wine from the capital, and a short sword made of crucible steel, and served it.

The king's face suddenly brightened, playing with the transparent glass, and the noble priests next to him congratulated one after another.

After Jian Chen took out his steel sword and cut a piece of wood into two pieces, the men finally let out a burst of exclamations, and the king withdrew his short sword, and his attitude became gentle.

Chen Jian grabbed a handful of soil, put a corn seed in it, and then laid out a corn cob, pulled a few corn grains from the top of the corn cob and handed it over.

If you want to plant and harvest here, you can offer a certain amount of the harvest as a tax obligation.

The priests roughly guessed what this meant, and gave a gesture of consideration.

In the case of slavery, then the land was owned by the king, including the land of the village community, which could not be bought or sold, and even the mountains and rivers could be owned by the king if necessary.

The land that this kind of small city can control is only within a few tens of miles, and those people outside the range are basically village communities, and the specific way of ruling is unknown.

But one thing Chen Jian knows very well is that tax collection also requires a very high level of organization and level, and the land tribute is completely different from the tax under the perfect cultural management system...... According to Chen Jian's estimates, this tribute, not to mention whether it can be compensated with glass beads, even if the grain is harvested, it is only 100 acres of land under the ridge cropping mode.

There are some things that you can't do until you have a firm foothold and have not learned the language.

The other party has not yet given an answer to this matter, but the matter of being able to trade has finally been decided.

A hundred soldiers of the expedition were responsible for collecting the pockets of individuals and the goods inside, spreading them on the ground with huge cotton cloths, and placing all kinds of goods on them.

The remaining 200 soldiers of the expedition were armed with guns and stood by them.

There was a wide variety of goods on cotton cloth, and goods such as sharp ironware, glass, and cotton cloth were very popular here, causing a frenzy.

Three days later, Chen Jian harvested about four kilograms of gold, more than 10,000 catties of corn, and seeds such as sweet potatoes and pumpkins in varying quantities.

In addition, one hundred and thirty sheep, forty oxen, and seven horses were exchanged, which were the most expensive.

There are a lot of things that can be exchanged here, and it can be seen that the economic development is okay, and there are also cotton cloth and the like, but Chen Jian can't use it.

As for pottery and other things, they are even more worthless in Chen Jian's eyes, and there are also slaves to exchange, but Chen Jian doesn't need to spend this money.

After waiting outside the city for a few more days, there was finally a feast, a feast of corn kernels, fish, and strange food, and a sacrifice to execute slaves.

After the feast, a priest followed Jian Chen to the place where the fleet was anchored, and after witnessing the large ships that were taller than the city, the priest was overwhelmed and frightened.

Using the hot air balloons and telescopes carried by the ship, the previous topographic exploration team selected a piece of land sandwiched between two river channels, about 50 miles in circumference, more than 500 square kilometers.

And that's not even counting some of the land along the sea, which is dotted with several villages along the river, which has not been exploited by the indigenous people because of the backward farming tools.

The price of these lands was 6,000 corn cobs, 400 baskets of potatoes and 2,000 pumpkins per year, and in the event of a war, some soldiers were sent from this side, and Chen Jian was given a human skin drum wrapped in gold leaf, a symbol of power.

Although the way of counting is different, and the way of writing numbers is also different, the number is always universal. Whether it is decimal, 36 or 20, as long as you master the method number, it is the easiest to master.

For the level of productivity at this time, this is a very high tribute, and in a sense, Chen Jian's group can be regarded as a small state of submission.

When the priest who assigned the land had left, someone asked, "What is this?" ”

Jian Chen smiled: "It's not a big deal, it's like a tribute." There are not many things like this, a hundred acres of land can be planted, and if this land is developed, how can there be more than 100,000 acres. ”

"It's not a question of how many things there are, but why should we give them things?"

"Because this is their land. Whether we admit it or not, at least they think the land belongs to the king. ”

"We should follow our rules. We can make the rules. ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "That's right, it's excellent to make rules." But what about this rule? With a big fist, whoever has a big fist will have it? So what are we looking for? ”

Lan Qi smiled on the side, and after Jian Chen finished speaking, she added: "So our rules must be universally applicable, not only if we can accept it, but also because more people can accept it." In this way, we can form the rules that we set. This land...... On what basis is the king's? That's the crux of the matter. As long as this key point is found, not only will we believe it, but the slaves here will believe it, and I am afraid that the white man named Janssen and their people will also believe it. ”

Some people suddenly realized, some people half-understood, Chen Jian smiled and motioned for Lan Qi to finish.

"Land, without labor, will not produce food. Therefore, the ownership of the land should be owned by all the people who live here, and the right to use it, while the food should be owned by the laborers. Since there are slaves here, and there are villages and communities where they have to pay a lot of tribute, but only have obligations but no rights, why don't we build a homeland on the basis of equality for all, which contains the laborers who live on this land? ”

Jian Chen continued Lan Qi's words: "Yes, this is completely different from who has a big fist, when we have a firm foothold here and learn the language here...... The next step is to overthrow the aristocracy, trample on the royal power, divide the land and divide the land, complain, denounce, disseminate science and technology and writing, and build a homeland where the rights and obligations of the people living here are equal. The valuable land in the Stone Age is different from the valuable land in the era of horse ploughing and iron cultivators, and we are not in a place where we have to eat others if we want two acres of land per capita, and there is no contradiction with the slave serf village here. ”

This is our rule, the rule that is generally applied wherever there are princes, priests, clergy, and the like who occupy the land, but do not pay taxes, but have rights but no obligations. We're just going to break an old world, so why should we play by the rules they set? ”

"As for the big fist...... Many of us, when we were in our homeland, were the fist-hugging bunch. If that's the rule, what are we doing here? ”

For short-sighted businessmen, snatching and burning by force is the first option. However, for a party with a large number of people, capital, knowledge, and management ability, such a short-sighted choice is unnecessary, and even if it is built into a dumping ground for commodities, someone must buy something in exchange. As for the indirect management of the united upper class for more than 100 years, it is better to directly replace it with ideology - taking history as a mirror, the slaves under the rule of the Bayi lords and living Buddhas are very interested in turning over and becoming masters, and there is only a primitive religion here and there is no writing and religious identity, so it is even simpler.