Chapter VI: Inducing Confessions
In today's realities, the people in the fleet are quite optimistic. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The normal spontaneous colonization mortality rate is extremely high, and the medical conditions, technology, food, management level, and other factors have led to the initial colonization mortality rate of the normal world line of more than 50%.
But Chen Jian has been preparing for this day for five years, and has planted the initial seeds from money to people to technology to organization and even ideology and humanistic concepts.
Those who choose to emigrate here are either poor and unable to survive, or they are idealists inspired by this universally applicable ideology. For the former, as long as they can survive, they can endure hard work and survive the first three or five years of reclamation, and everything will be fine.
The latitude here is a little lower, the advantage is that there is plenty of heat, it can be two or three crops a year, the construction of the house does not need to think about heating, and people will not freeze to death in winter. The downside is that there are a lot of mosquitoes here, and there may be strange diseases such as blight, fever, malaria, etc.
As long as you take precautions in advance, do a good job in urban planning and sewage discharge, as well as the habit of not drinking non-boiling water that has been a habit for hundreds of years, and master some herbal medicines, there should be no big problem.
After the internal consensus was reached, the construction of a new immigrant city was put on the agenda.
The settlers, who had completed the basic organizational structure on the island, quickly elected their representatives, eighty percent of whom were members of the Mexican Party. The committees of the Mexican Party's own organizations got together for an immigration meeting.
After discussion, it was decided to put aside the various ordinances and declarations that were to be read out until the employment contract expired three years later, when the local language was basically learned, and the construction of the resettlement site had roughly taken shape.
After discussion at the meeting, everyone gave this place a name, called "Great Wilderness City".
For the time being, there is enough food to eat, sweet potatoes, potatoes and pumpkins and the like, which can also be harvested for a short period of time as a supplement to food, plus the ship has prepared enough food for these people to eat for a year.
As long as the granary is prepared and the cats brought with it are quickly multiplied, there is no need to worry too much about the food problem in the Great Wilderness City.
Considering the steady stream of immigrants that followed, it was necessary to plan a city.
Cities can be expanded along the estuary towards the sea, taking into account both the steady flow of immigrants, the natives after assimilation in the future, and the advantages of port transportation in the future.
There are many trees here, and you can build a wooden house, but the planning of the neighborhood must be prepared in advance.
Building from scratch, Chen Jian is familiar with the road, and this time there is a large number of new technologies and technology population as support, and there is no pressure.
In terms of practical experience in farming, no one here is more familiar with Chen Jian, a man who has spent his whole life playing with stones and cows and horses. The organizational skills that had been practiced a lot in the previous life also came into play here.
A plan is drawn up. Including the family farms, cities, ports, and civil defense star forts of the future, although they are still on paper, they will be realized eventually.
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By the time the clanging sound of logging resounded through the tranquil land, it was already July.
Except for the occasional trade with that small city, the Great Wilderness City is strictly managed, and there is basically not much contact with the outside world.
On the other hand, some nobles or the children of priests would occasionally come to play, and the people of the city would try to be as friendly as possible, and they would prepare some food that was difficult for the people of the city to eat, and they would give them some knick-knacks as gifts.
In two months, Chen Jian mastered a lot of local vocabulary, even if he could not be proficient in conversation, but some simple communication could be done.
In the party, Chen Jian's mastery of the local dialect is very low, and his mind is mainly on the white man named Yang Sen who was rescued.
Now it seems that everything is good, but in fact, the gap is very clear to Jian Chen.
The seafaring experience that the group of people in the west spent a hundred years and countless lives piled up is far from being comparable to the Republic side.
Although some skills are considered to be ahead, the gap between sailors and captains is still much worse in the face of human life experience. He sailed to this side this time, it was luck. Compared with the west, hundreds of crew captains who can cross the Atlantic Ocean can be caught by casual rowing and pulling, and there will be at least more than ten years of catching up time.
But all progress is made by the dead.
In addition, Jian Chen also needed to get the "partial truth" he wanted from Yang Sen's mouth, and spent a lot of time clinging to it.
He couldn't say what he knew, and his own group of people was the first to go to sea to see the world, and a lot of material could probably affect the policies of the republic, if those officials were not so dull.
Taking advantage of the language barrier, Jian Chen knocked on the side, constantly luring Yang Sen to say the news he wanted others to know.
He is very good at creating "partial truth" news.
Unaware of the fact that he had become a tool for Jian Chen, Yang Sen fell into Jian Chen's trap little by little during his communication with Jian Chen, the young commander of the fleet, and Lan Qi, whom he mistook for a nun.
Soon after landing, Chen Jian made some communication with Yang Sen with gestures, signaling that as a ticket to rescue him and bring him here, a total of twenty silver coins plus all his guns and tools, he would need to pay for it with his labor.
Soon, Janssen understood what it meant to be a policy of not eating if you don't work.
True, there is no rationing here, and money is paid for every day of work. It was not gold or silver that Janssen was familiar with, but paper money, but it was also impossible to buy food here without paper money.
After understanding the exchange ratio of paper money to silver coins, Yang Sen knew that he was afraid that he would not be able to leave for at least five years. He also understood that in such a place, it would be wishful thinking to leave, and there was no place to run without a ship surrounded by the sea.
After every day's labor, Chen Jian and Lan Qi would come to chat with Yang Sen, but the problem was basically controlled by Chen Jian.
Starting from the very beginning of nationality and national flag, Chen Jian constantly tricked Yang Sen to tell the truth he wanted others to know.
For example, he deliberately took a piece of maple candy and gave it to Janssen, and then pointed to a tree and cut it open, indicating that the sugar was extracted from the tree.
Janssen, on the other hand, pointed to the corn grown outside, indicating that the sugar he knew was extracted from a corn-like plant, and that it was like saltpeter in color.
This goes on to say that these plants are cultivated by many people on the southern islands, especially in the plantations of the Spaniards.
Originally, sugarcane, a crop that had been seen at all at this time, was lured by Chen Jian to let Yang Sen say it.
Relying on this method of topic lure, in two months, as Lan Qi's vocabulary of some Low German words was gradually enriched, a "truth" that Chen Jian wanted people to know was gradually concocted.
The people in the fleet came to know that to the west of the homeland they inhabited, there was a continent, and that there were many countries on the continent, which were often at war, and that Janssen's country was at war with a country called Spain.
Further east, there is a rich land called India, which is rich in spices such as chili peppers and peppercorns, as well as cotton, jute, and rice.
Next to India, there is also a tax-paying country, and the people of that country are like these people, very rich and large, and have fine porcelain and silk.
Only then did the people here know that the world was really so big, and there were really many strange countries and strange similarities and differences.
Later, when we talked about the country of Spain, it became clear that there was Spanish land just south of the homeland and here.
Sugar cane, gold, silver, dyes, and everything of value were abundant, and Spain was a rich and powerful country, with galleons larger than the largest ships in the fleet......
From Janssen's point of view, Spain is indeed so powerful that it is boundless, and this is part of the truth that Jian Chen wants people to know.
However, in reality, Spain can basically be reduced to an ATM.
Not to mention war, it is legal trade, and sooner or later Spain will pill, let alone a republic with a population of more than 30 million people so close to the north.
The Spanish poet once praised the greatness of his homeland in this way:
Let London produce woolen to its satisfaction,
Let's let the Netherlands produce stripes to the satisfaction of the Netherlands,
Let Florence produce clothes to its satisfaction,
Let the West Indies produce beaver skins and pack horses,
Let Milan produce cotton to the satisfaction of the heart,
Let Italy and Flanders produce their linen,
Our gold coins will satisfy them.
The only thing that can be proven is that
All countries will train skilled workers for Madrid,
And Madrid is the queen of all parliaments,
The whole world serves her,
And she doesn't have to serve anyone.
In other words, rich and capricious. The people who work are all turtles, I have gold and silver, and you are all poor people who work for me. We in Spain do not need to develop any industry and commerce, because the industry and commerce you develop are for us......
Basically, it's true that adventurers break world records time and time again, bringing back frightening amounts of gold and silver.
In this way, the whole country is permeated with a fantasy of getting rich overnight and an air of aristocracy.
Those who have the slightest ability want to run out to get gold and silver; The centralization of power in the country has not yet been completed, and there are many tax cards in various places, and industry and commerce cannot develop if they want to.
A large amount of gold and silver was used to buy porcelain and silk of the Ming Dynasty, cotton cloth and fur in Europe, a standing army of 100,000 people, unaware of the strategic contraction, from Ireland to Turkey, there were wars everywhere, and the Dutch, who had more money, robbed a silver ship at will and obtained gold and silver coins worth twenty East India Company shares......
Then, he generously liberalized tariffs, imposed heavy taxes at home, and selflessly helped his poor neighbors to the north complete the handicraft revolution in a spirit of internationalism and using himself as a market.
Of course, this disrupted world line can soon change the poem, such as the names of places rich in cotton, pack horses, and wool.
This is the history that Jian Chen knows, and it is not wrong to say that it is an ATM.
However, what Chen Jian wants everyone or China to know is completely different.
What everyone knew from Janssen was that in the south there was mighty Spain, a country with the most gold and silver coins, a powerful army and fleet, a tradition of destroying a country, and the miracle of three hundred men destroying an empire of millions of people......
This is part of the truth that comes from Janssen's mouth, the Spain of a Dutch man's mouth; A Spain that the military, bureaucrats, and businessmen at home want to know about the South rather than the West.