Chapter Ninety-Five: South and North

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Instead, together with the six most rebellious people selected in the first batch of Wangbei City, they began to study for an unknown amount of time.

During the day, these seven people continued to do what they were supposed to do, and together with Wangbei City, which was changing every day, they felt the joy of growth, and the sense of accomplishment of creating a world that overcame the barren land to gather into a city and village could be felt every day.

The fort grew taller day by day, the walls were built day by day, the new rice seeds brought by Siam began to be planted, the sweet potatoes were harvested again, the first sugar cane fields were planted, the first sugar mill was being built, the first new ship was built in the docks of Wangbei City, the first judicial intervention on marriage, the first military militia members were selected to begin drills, and the first aboriginal priestesses came here to give thanks.

For the first time, they are more and more convinced that life can actually be better, and they are also convinced that what to do can really solve the problem of what to do.

In the evening, the seven of them would go to a special school and learn something. Start with the simplest things and start anew. Organizational techniques, propaganda techniques, why to rebel, why to rebel, why to delay the rebellion, what to do after the rebellion, whether the existence of the vassal king is reasonable, the relativity of rights and obligations, the growth rate of the population, the area of cultivated land, and so on.

According to Lin Zigui's understanding, this is a dragon slaying technique, and it is a dragon slaying technique that can be taught universally, and now that he has only been learning it for two months, he already thinks that dragon slaying is a righteous and extremely reasonable thing, and he does not even have the slightest fear and self-blame and moral conscience accusation.

When one day it finally came to what to do, someone gave the answer, before the development of science can not reach the technology of synthetic ammonia, there are nothing more than two ways.

That is, to organize immigrants to reclaim those barren lands, relieve population pressure and cultivated land, and organize farmers to build water conservancy projects. Then I believe that science can solve many things, and prepare for the future to improve the literacy rate of people in the world and open new schools.

This is the answer to what to do, but after the answer of how to do it, there is another question, which is the answer to how to do it.

To organize immigrants, it is necessary to have organizational skills, to have money, to be able to regulate food and taxes, to be able to stand firm and not be robbed by barbarians, to have enough people who can plant and calculate the organization, to have enough teachers in new-style schools, to have a clear goal, to treat the people of the world as human beings rather than as the private property of one family and one surname, to put the life and death of the people in the world above the rule of one family and one surname, to have the concept of law, to have the pursuit of rights, to have the equality and freedom of people, and so on.

And behind these answers there is something very important, what is the reason for this? Why? Why do you care if they live or die?

This is a dead knot that cannot be untied, it is obviously a bourgeois revolution, but it has to be completed by a group of people who have nothing to do with the bourgeoisie.

Fortunately, this ethnic group has the idea of worrying about the country and the people, and cherishing the world for the public, and has always had it, and this most difficult knot to untie is the easiest to untie.

It is only by such people that such people can be relied upon to organize a group of organizations and armies as if they were ascetics and Puritans or saints, which is not the right course of the parties and which is necessarily distorted under the productive forces of the moment, but is the only way to adapt to local conditions, because the bourgeoisie is not in a position to organise a revolution in which they will ultimately benefit, and there is no other reason to mobilize more people.

This is the essence of the history of the ethnic group, there is no decent religion, but there is no shortage of people who die for their beliefs and ideals.

Only in this way will it be possible to catch up with the industrial revolution and scientific and technological progress that are likely to be ahead of schedule at this point in time, to popularize the progressive things pursued by the bourgeois revolution before the start of the First World War, and to let these things penetrate into the hearts of the people and establish a bourgeois republic with a legal system. After that, whether it is a right turn or another revolution, you don't need to start from scratch, you don't need to fall too far behind, and you don't need to be too tired to catch up.

Since it was phased, what was taught in this school was not as advanced as it was in some of the mining areas and textile factories in Nan An Min County.

These seven people were the earliest group of people in Chen Jian's massive batch training plan for rebel talents before his death. In the future, these seven people will become seventy, seven hundred, seven thousand, or even seventy thousand, and they will be sent in batches to the places where things are most likely to cause trouble. I dare not say that the place where the most serious floods in Fujian this time, with two major uprisings in more than 100 years, is not far to the north is Jinggang Mountain.

In the end, it was still up to them, not himself, as an outsider, and he didn't know what he would do in the future, but at least he would go faster and farther than the Manchus.

Since history is already the worst choice, how bad can it be?

The reality is always so ridiculous.

When the first batch of seven people began to discuss why the emperor was rich all over the world, and why the vassal king could get so many fiefs by blood, Chen Jian finally waited for the consent to be allowed to go to the capital to pay tribute, or because the news of the Battle of the Ryukyus had not yet arrived, and only praised Chen Jian and others for such things as admiring kingization and relief for the victims.

This is a major event, and it is also the most important link to gain a foothold here, and the stakes have long been clearly explained, and there are basically few voices of opposition.

Those who were promised future company benefits and trade dividends said that as long as they could make enough money, they would not lose a piece of meat if they knelt down, and they could earn hundreds of thousands of millions of silver coins every year just by kneeling, and such things did not need to be considered too much.

Although some military officers and some officials of the Ministry of Rites agreed that this would be beneficial, they refused to take part in the northward trip, and some people in the party were even more reluctant to enter.

Jian Chen begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother to invite the man who was proficient in astronomy, calendar, and mathematical calculations to accompany him, and the man knew that this time was inevitable, so he had to agree.

After counting the number of people to go, a number of people were selected from the first batch of victims, with 500 soldiers and some sailors, even if it was the team that went to Beijing this time.

Although he came here with the Ryukyu tribute envoy, the path to the capital was different from the two sides, and Chen Jian once again rushed ahead of the Ryukyu tribute envoy.

Chen Jian and others were allowed to go up the coast, into the Bohai Bay, and from Dengzhou to Beijing. And the Ryukyu envoys still had to follow the original path.

These days, Chen Jian has also translated various gifts into Chinese, and each one has made enough explanations below, this kind of translation work he is not good at, especially the three characters of Xinyada are too difficult, but he can copy the wisdom of historical figures, which can be regarded as passing this level.

Before leaving, Jian Chen discussed the development plan of Wangbei City with the people who stayed here.

If all goes well, it is estimated that before he returns from Beijing, the organization in his homeland will send the people he applied to come here.

Several factories and cooperative farms for the cultivation of tropical crops such as sugar were inevitable. There is also the mining of minerals such as coal, gold, and sulfur along the Tamsui River.

The group of people who came a year ago have gradually become familiar with life here, and have been learning and doing for a year, planting a lot of rice and sweet potatoes.

The land on which these grains are grown is very fertile, and if you think about it in a profit-first way, it is better to grow sugar cane, but if you can't guarantee food, you can't do anything.

Subsequent development requires three consecutive years of investment of sufficient funds, which can only be obtained by business.

It is an established plan to use commercial profits to feed back to the victims of the disaster, and then use the mines, taxes, sugar, deerskins and other goods reclaimed by the victims to develop industry and commerce.

The two routes of commerce were none other than Manila and Japan, both of which had enough silver and also required goods from the Ming Dynasty.

The envoy from Japan has not yet returned, and the situation is still unclear, in case he goes to Japan to trade and is caught, the matter of trade with the Ming Dynasty will be blown up, and those who oppose it will find an easier excuse to start.

So before leaving, Jian Chen approached Li Dan and asked him to lead the first cargo ships to Manila in the name of the company, and to temporarily trade in the name of Ming merchants.

There is no more suitable person than Li Dan, who survived the Manila Massacre, and originally did not dare to have hatred for the Spaniards, but now he has dared after watching the Battle of the Ryukyus.

He was also fluent in the sea, fluent in Spanish, and familiar with the trading mechanisms there. Chen Jian promised that if this voyage and the next few times were successful, Li Dan could extract part of the profits as equity capital to continue to invest, and he could also improve his status and salary in the company.

This year, through Gao Cai's relationship with some smugglers and some unclear relationships, he hoarded a lot of goods that Manila needed. After the massacre, there were many fewer Ming merchant ships going to Manila, which was an opportunity to make super profits.

Li Dan originally thought that Chen Jian would send a few warships or large ships to follow, but he didn't expect that Chen Jian sent some small boats, and Li Dan was inevitably a little worried in his heart, for fear that the Spaniards would make some moves.

"There is no way, now that a few large ships are sent, the Spaniards will be too frightened to trade, and the massacre has only passed for a long time. At this time, the big ship is sent, and I am afraid that the Chinese in Manila will be slaughtered again. ”

Chen Jian explained, and said with a wry smile: "There is no way to fight hard with the Spaniards now, and it will be different if you gain a firm foothold here in the future." But don't worry, although there are no big ships, the Spaniards don't dare to do anything either. ”

Li Dan was still a little worried, and in order to reassure him, Chen Jian said: "Now the Spaniards very much hope that the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty will come to trade, and at this time, as long as they don't have the appearance of revenge, they will not make any moves." This time the trade will only be easier than in previous years, and besides, you just bought the shares with those two gold bars, don't you want to fight once? ”

"I have the guts, but I'm afraid that the Spaniards will do something when they find out that our fleet is not a single merchant of the Ming Dynasty, but, uh, yours?"

Jian Chen was quite confident this time, and shook his head with a smile.

"Scare them to death! Even if they knew, they would only dare to collect some taxes or detain the ship for various reasons, and wait for me to send someone to negotiate, and as for the crew, none of them dared to move, and the cargo did not dare to be less. ”

"Why?"

Chen Jian pointed to the black and white flag fluttering on the warship moored in the harbor and said, "Because behind that flag, there is a country that can make Spain unstable." ”