"It takes money, but we have it. The Ming Dynasty's forbidden sea system ensured the possibility of success of our trade monopoly and extremely high profits; Low tariffs ensure sales for cotton, glass, alkali and other products. Our domestically controlled steel ingot, machinery and firearms workshops can guarantee the supply of guns at cost price; The coordination of small-caliber field artillery, artillery technology and mathematics ensure that our flintlock tactics must be ahead of the times; Trench digging tactics and the use of glycerin explosives ensured that most of the Asian enemy's forts were not as strong as they might have been. ”

"And the concentration of sugar cultivation, the reclamation of plains, and the guarantee of food for new high-yield crops will allow most of the settlers to live a better life than before – and as long as large-scale, wars within the world trading system do not break out, the price of sugar will be very stable."

"As for officers, the excess officers we train, it's not just us who spend money. Ryukyu needs to be hired, Thailand needs to be hired, and even military officers can be used as a high-income occupation outside the country. ”

After talking about the army, Jian Chen said: "So we don't lack money, technology, or even the future of various products that represent national wealth. What we lack is people, a lot of people, a lot of labor, and cheap, unorganized, clan-splitting labor before coming here. This is the question that the comrade just asked about how to retain the labor force. ”

"For us, we are a relatively scarce labor force and sufficient land resources, resulting in an increase in labor costs while the number of people remains the same. Even if Wangbei City has built a sewer system, simple cement red brick buildings, entertainment theaters and the like, these attractions are worth part of the collective village that will have a good life. Therefore, on the one hand, we must uphold the export of relying on technological advantages to let the employees live a relatively good life, working ten hours a day and resting for one and a half days; On the other hand, it is necessary to continue to provide relief to the victims and transport them from the overpopulated north. ”

"Is it just Fujian? But that's not all. Fujian is a remote area, and there are not many vassal kings of the Ming Empire. However, further north, the number of feudal lords gradually increased. You can't go inland, but you can do a lot along the coast, using our connections and reputation. Where there are more vassal kings, there are more victims, more displaced people, and more poor people. ”

"So again, don't make short-term profits as the first purpose, set aside enough budget every year to become a full-time 'human trafficker'. In the same way, the area with more vassal kings is also the easiest place to get into trouble if something goes wrong in the future, and we need a large number of locals. ”

"We want to do it, from Laizhou Dengzhou to Quanzhou, where there is a large-scale famine in the coastal areas, our ships will appear. Be a good person, do relief, and then load people on ships and send them to Wangbei City in batches. ”

"To what order of magnitude? More than two years later, the first residents of Wangbei City, who are familiar with the laws and life here, will leave the farms and plantations they have cultivated, and the vacated jobs will be available to 30,000 or more people a year. After more than two years, when grain can be guaranteed, trade monopolies are established, cattle and horses are raised, and struvite mining is formed, the number of minerals and workshops can be increased. ”

"In the disaster areas in northern Fujian, there has been no shortage of children and girls in recent years, and there are as many children as there are between the ages of six and ten. We have a good reputation in Fujian, and this is our focus area. ”

said several times in a row that "profit is not an end but a means", which made many people present feel that Chen Jian was making a fuss, and said that there was no need to say anything about it, and felt that Chen Jian was not looking at a political party with political demands and goals, but at an interest group.

Chen Jian didn't get tired of it, and said it over and over again, until when he said this sentence again, there was a coaxing laugh below.

Someone shouted, "Isn't it just for us to control the flow of capital, instead of letting it flow spontaneously and profitably?" Our purpose is to make life better, not to allow capital to increase in value profit-seeking and aimlessly. In other words, the same idea is shared by those who are in the 'march of dignity' in China, and they are also worried about the widespread poverty and eventual collapse of the system caused by purposeless and unplanned value-added, but the solution they offer is to regressively cut off this possibility. You can put it a little more clearly. ”

Jian Chen shrugged and smiled, and the atmosphere below gradually became warmer. Lin Zigui and a few local participants heard Jian Chen's words very clearly before, but when these people shouted these words, they couldn't understand it, and they said that they still had to learn when they went back.

After the laughter below gradually stopped, Jian Chen said: "There are some things, we have to separate the yin and yang sides to see." What is wrong at home is not necessarily wrong here, because the degree of development is different. A large part of the large land in China exists in the way of management, and the investment in new technology and hydraulic facilities for horse and cattle farming has already been dismantled into small pieces in this way, which is a regression. Moreover, it is too close to the Great Wilderness City, the climate is suitable, the domestic handicraft industry is constantly developing, and there is a huge market, and we must see with pity and joy the bankruptcy of batches of small craftsmen and small farmers. ”

"You can't say that one thing is wrong somewhere and it must be wrong somewhere else. In short, our purpose and plan must be carried out consistently, and it is not the first time that we have done such a thing contrary to the profit-seeking nature of capital, otherwise there is no need to reclaim the Great Wilderness City, and fools know that it is more profitable to invest money in sea trade, workshops, and even slave trade. Invest in the sea trade, the workshop, or the slave trade, and I get 200 percent in return. The return on reclamation and resettlement in the Great Wilderness City is negative in the short term...... No way, who let us go down a path of no return in the eyes of others? ”

"But if we look at it another way, and we invest in it to make life better for more people, then it's fair to say that we're getting the rewards we deserve. So, from a certain point of view, the key is to see what the purpose of the pursuit is. Fortunately, many of you were in demand in the slave trade or maritime trade of the Nanyang Company, but none of you went, and you walked on this road of no return like me. Then keep going, others can support slaves is not a reason for us to support slaves, not to talk about our values, even our thinking logic is not valid. ”

"Now we have a long way to go. But if you look at the world of the future, what kind of values and ways of thinking will become the mainstream? We are confident, and we are sure that those good values will replace the dirty values that we have now. ”

"The meaning of mercy is the feeling of condescension after the unreasonable becomes reasonable. And turning what would have required mercy into something normal and unworthy of praise is what we pursue. For example, a strong man snatches a piece of bread from someone else, which is a natural and correct thing, and the pitiful person will pity the poor man. And what we are pursuing is that the emotion after snatching the bread is not pity, but blaming the strong man. ”

"It's like a disaster happening here. Those who only know mercy will have pity on those who are suffering and ask for help from the emperor or others. But in our opinion, if you can kill those vassal kings and collect taxes from those tax-exempt classes for relief, or if you have the right to pay the obligation, why should you turn a normal thing into a mercy worthy of praise? ”

"What we need to do is to get rid of the mercy that comes from an unreasonable system. After the system is rationalized, poverty and disasters can be overcome with both hands and reduced by scientific progress. Even achieving superficial and nominal equality of all human beings, who are not unequal by blood, is a huge step forward. Four million acres of land, it's not impossible, but the premise is what you give, not because of what your surname, who your father is, or you become an official. ”

"As for the injustice hidden under this nominal equality, that's something we have to solve at home, and it's not our turn to solve it here. There are priorities, and the road is also taken step by step. ”

Everyone clapped their hands in agreement, but then someone said: "Jian Chen, the current situation in the north, the places that are most likely to have large-scale uprisings in the future are those places where there are many vassal kings. Inequality and privilege are also the most acute, but they are also the hardest places for our power to penetrate. As for Fujian, where industry and commerce are developing, and we are constantly taking away displaced people, I am afraid that the problem is not too serious, and it can only be a long-term, slow, and 10-20 years for the people along the coast to gradually accept new ideas. However, it is difficult for us to penetrate deep in the north, and it is also close to the capital of the empire, and it is the place where their power is the most powerful. ”

Jian Chen said with a smile: "Don't forget, when negotiating with the Ming Empire, I had an act of goodwill: we will organize a group of agricultural scholars to go to some areas in the north to help promote corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other high-yielding crops that are ready for famine. By the way, we can help some poor children there, open a school, and look at the local agriculture, land, taxes, poverty, topography, and so on. Those children studied for a year or two with the people we sent, and sent them to Wangbei City to learn something useful, and when the catastrophe suddenly broke out and the beacons were everywhere, they were put back in an organized manner, and it was a big powder keg that was enough to disturb several counties. ”

"Don't rush, take your time. It's not that we create troubled times, but that when troubled times come, we turn them into a revolution. How can we have the ability to create troubled times? Hiding in Wangbei City to plant fields, sail, and build workshops can make the empire chaotic? We are doing things while there is chaos, we don't have to disturb the world, don't think of us as demons. ”

"Alright, I've pretty much said what I need to say, and the rest is up to the people you left behind. As for me, go to find the legendary southern continent, and if we fail in the future, at least we can organize some coastal refugees to survive on a wider land and build new homes. ”

"Victory will change the world; Defeat is a paradise. ”