Chapter 56: The Rebellion and Separation (I)
Jiang Zhili didn't take the booklet, and laughed: "Alarmist." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info you can also look at it, you can not look at it. ”
It's not that Jiang Zhili is arrogant, but the few words he said before, and it is the limit that he can not change color.
Lijiyun: Analyze the words and break the law, change the name in chaos, and stick to the left to disrupt the government and kill. Obscenity, strange clothes, strange tricks, strange weapons to suspect the public, kill. Acting hypocrisy and firmness, hypocrisy and arguing, learning from non-learning, following non-conformity, suspecting the public, killing. If you are suspicious of ghosts and gods, time, and divination, you will be killed. Those who punish these four will not listen. Whoever abstains with the multitude will not forgive.
In a few words, this group of people has committed all these four unforgivable sins. Not to mention whether the musket cannon loom is a miraculous weapon or not, it is that the rest of the day is suspicious, if it were not for the Gentiles, they would have to be killed.
Moreover, if you look at it at this time, it can only show that you are very inward-looking, and you can't look at it at this time for the glory of the country. Even if you are really curious and want to see it, you have to wait until no one is there to watch it quietly, and at this time, it is to destroy your own prestige.
Seeing this, Jian Chen stopped talking nonsense and took back the booklet. The next few people saw that Chen Jian was deflated, and they all laughed either kindly or playfully.
After the embarrassment, I finally talked about the rice entering Quanzhou, as well as the disaster relief and epidemic prevention afterwards.
Jiang Zhili attaches great importance to this matter, even if Chen Jian and others go ashore, he can call the shots, after all, this is a disaster relief, and he will not be impeached.
In addition, Quanzhou also has the foundation of a shipping center, and the opposite side of the Fuxue is the Great Mosque, so it is wrong to say that there is no vision for foreign exchanges.
In addition, the import of rice from outside was also encouraged by the imperial court.
Since the 34th year of Wanli, only one cent of tax has been levied on imported rice per stone, and as long as this tax is paid, the policy is still supported.
It's just that because of the thin profits, few maritime merchants are involved. In the event of a famine, the price of rice must have skyrocketed, but today's communication level will go after knowing the news, and even the daylily will be cold.
Fortunately, the foreign trade of the Ming Dynasty was a monster that only entered and could not leave, even if there were merchant ships that continued to trade in Manila without fear of slaughter, it was better to decorate rice than empty ships when they returned.
Although the amount of rice in these ships is not very large, Jiang Zhili also understands that as long as they survive the merchant ships of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generations, they will survive.
Since there is no longer a discussion of worldviews, the exchange is gradually becoming more and more enthusiastic.
Chen Jian said again: "Mr. Jiang, I have submitted the trade application to Fuzhou, and it will not take long to get a reply." But this trade matter is probably not up to the governor. ”
"That's nature, it's going to be a dictatorship of God. If Brother Chen really wants to pay tribute, he will have to wait until at least next year. But you don't know where your fleet will anchor this year? ”
Jian Chen hurriedly said, "This is exactly what I want to say. I wonder if I can temporarily dock in Quanzhou? ”
"Absolutely not!"
Jiang Zhili was extremely vigilant, and said in his heart that the fox's tail was really exposed, and the matter of Xiangshanao was in a neighboring province, and he didn't want to be used by Chen Jian.
Jian Chen hurriedly explained: "It's just for the time being. There is no other intention, please rest assured that Mr. Jiang will do so. We are ready to open the market for trade, and even if we trade, we will not choose Quanzhou. Silted up, the port was in ruins, and the recent earthquake and wind damage made it not a good place to trade. Not far away is Yuegang, where businessmen gather, even if we want to learn about Xiangshanao, we will not choose here. ”
"If trade is not permitted, we will leave for Japan immediately and will not stop here. A few days ago, I met a few Japanese businessmen, and they said that they still liked the goods such as saltpeter, steel, guns, and medicinal herbs. In terms of distance, we are closer to Japan, and trade is also very profitable. And there is silver there......"
Hearing Chen Jian say this, Jiang Zhili said: "Those Japanese invaders invade my territory and kill my people, and you must not trade with them." ”
He also made some edifying remarks to morally explain the disadvantages of trade with Japan. Before Jian Chen could speak, the next person snorted and laughed: "This emperor of Chixian Shenzhou is only afraid that he can't control us." If preaching is useful, the world will be quiet. The Spaniards did not stop other people's trade, but hundreds of warships patrolled the seas. ”
"If you can sail our ships to our shores and block our ports, it will be useful. Even if we don't open to our ports, even if we blockade Japan, we won't be able to trade. But if you can't do it, do you say that we merchants will ignore the gold and silver? You want to make international law? But you have to be qualified. ”
Jiang Zhili reprimanded angrily: "Presumptuous! Export words! What a villain! ”
Chen Jian listened to it on the sidelines, it was the lack of desire to be rigid, some people in the fleet felt that there was no profit in trading with the Ming Dynasty at all, those raw silk and other European goods were transported from their homeland to Europe closer, and the Ming Dynasty had no silver, they themselves opposed Chen Jian's behavior, and at this time seized the opportunity to blurt out.
The people in the fleet are not fools, and they are all selected by thousands, so it is impossible to be monolithic.
Before making this decision, Jian Chen had already communicated with them, the fleet was not his own, and some things had to be supported by many people behind him for different purposes and interests.
If it was just a disaster relief, everyone was still unanimous.
These people all see this as an opportunity to build trust and credibility. Through a few kind words from the figures in the officialdom, at least you can get permission to trade.
The other is that the two modes of profit of trade and land rent have been determined before, as well as the means of exploiting labor to make profits. Before walking around the coast of Taiwan, the aborigines above were still in the late Stone Age, and there were both goddesses and priests in the village community, and there was basically no concept of private ownership and land taxation.
There is no concept of private ownership and land taxation, which is very bad, and it is determined that this group of people is not easy to exploit and resist. On the other hand, in the Zhangzhou generation of Quanzhou, the people here have the concept of tax payment and private ownership, and they are also the best labor force and exploitation objects.
Therefore, in addition to the purpose of trade, the disaster relief is also to establish a good reputation among the people, and it is easy to incite these people who cannot survive to cross the strait to reclaim that barren land in the future.
Whether it is sugar or rice, soup or mining, as long as the ownership of the land is determined to belong to the company and guaranteed by force, this is an income comparable to trade.
Taking advantage of this disaster relief, we can establish a good reputation in Quanzhou, at least there will be no estrangement, and it will be easier to communicate in the future.
Moreover, in terms of cost, it is necessary to have a good relationship with the people in Fujian, whether it is to form violent organs or to maintain trade, people are needed.
However, before the voyage, Chen Jian bought some sweet potatoes from Myanmar, saying that he could help promote sweet potatoes after the disaster relief so that many poor people would not starve to death.
Upon hearing this, many people raised objections at the time.
Some people pointed out that it is not a problem to help them prevent the epidemic, to sell rice at a reasonable price, and to build hospitals to accommodate the poor like Catholicism.
However, the promotion of sweet potatoes is not good for the future. Only a catastrophe or famine can prompt more people to flee to the island, after all, they are not allowed to move at will.
And the promotion of sweet potatoes will make those who were originally ready to flee fall back into tolerance. Without labor, the company would not be able to make money, and if it wanted cheap labor, it would have to starve the people of Quanzhou.
If you don't starve, there will be fewer people running by. Especially with the cultivation of sweet potatoes, even if there is a famine, there were originally ten starving people, but now there are only five, no matter how it is calculated, it is not cost-effective.
The controversy began, and the differences of opinion were clearly revealed.
Those who aspired to the slave trade were clearly opposed to helping to promote sweet potatoes. At home, it is possible to use the same ancestor and the like to stop this kind of behavior, but here, if blacks can be slaves, why can't these people? Even if it is not cost-effective for slaves from the point of view of exploitation, it is obviously more in the interest of not promoting sweet potatoes to starve some people and forcing others to run over.
There are those who oppose this kind of behavior, and there are those who believe that people in the world should have this kind of morality, regardless of each other, and that it will also be beneficial in the long run, and can gain greater prestige. Even they opposed the slave trade, believing that it was wrong, and that they should help the oppressed people of the system to overthrow the oppression and establish a country where everyone is equal, and so on.
This involves a fundamental problem, from the perspective of the country, even if they look similar and have similar habits, they are still alien after all.
The nationalist formula used here is to figure out how to dismember China, how to capture people as slaves or cheap laborers, and how to control the upper strata to become a dumping ground and colony.
Even those who oppose it do so partly because of the longer-term benefits they reap, rather than because they oppose the act itself. Only a small percentage are really ideologically opposed to this behavior.
Moreover, for such a thing as disaster relief, it can be regarded as benevolent and righteous. Some people say that if we don't help the disaster, more people will die, and if we don't help promote sweet potatoes and prevent epidemics, they will still die. The deaths of these people were not killed by us, and this does not involve a moral bottom line, what should be considered outside the bottom line is interests. If the death of these people is caused by us, then you can accuse it of being immoral, but it is not caused by us, and should we be blamed for not doing good deeds?
After the argument, Chen Jian reluctantly explained: "The purpose of promoting sweet potatoes is to keep those potential laborers alive. First of all, we don't have the ability to occupy the big island directly, at least after we have done it and opened up the Pacific shipping route. By that time, these people had already starved to death. ”
"Second, these people don't starve to death, and as long as the land system and tax system remain unchanged, they will not be able to bear the slightest risk. Even if there are sweet potatoes, they will not starve to death now, and there will still be a large-scale wave of immigration in the future. ”
"It only takes a month for a man to starve to death, and if we can't be ready to reclaim that island within a month, why don't we raise these laborers before they starve to death? If many starve to death, labor will still be scarce after all. ”
"It's not a long-term plan, it's just a three-to-five-year plan. We can gain enough fame that it will also be easier for us to manage. ”
After talking a lot, one of them stood up with a pat on the thigh and said, "Hearing you say that, I have thought of a way to make money." The Spanish colonies and the islands lacked slaves, and if you talk about breeding, we could have built a farm on the oil port. Capture the slaves and raise them like pigs. In this way, a woman can give birth to one child a year, let's match a full-time doctor and a midwife, catch a few strong ones as male slaves, and choose female slaves with big breasts and buttocks as tools, and it can be increased tenfold in ten years! ”
"Each person has 400 catties of corn per year, and it is only 4,000 catties in ten years. Ten years later, the first batch of small slaves will be sold, and the profit will be at least 1,000 percent! ”
I remember that at that time, the people on both sides scolded each other, and it was easy to suppress those voices, and Chen Jian scolded wildly in his heart.
At the beginning, Hu Lin said that he was cold-blooded and ruthless, and now he is really about to confirm his reputation. If there is an internal party organization, where is there a need for so many crooked reasoning, but in the face of this group of domestic entourage whose interests are paramount, it must be said so bloody. They have done nothing wrong, and they have done nothing wrong, but they are just a manifestation of the ideological dispute, which will become more and more intense at home in the future.
In this way, Chen Jian is more and more nostalgic for the places where grassroots organizations were basically established in Minjun, Nan'an, and Dahuang City, and many things are much easier to do. But here, leaving the organization is really nothing, nothing can be done, even reasoning has to be said in a way that is acceptable to others, and you have to face so many anti-human topics that are regarded as normal.
However, the darkest days are yet to come.