Chapter 57: The Rebellion and Separation (II)

Even if they talk to Jiang Zhili to this day, those people are still fearless, disaster relief is okay, but for the purpose of making profits in the future. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 But when it comes to the emperor, the state, deterrence, and indoctrination, there is a huge backlash from those who oppose it.

According to some of the things that some militants in the fleet heard in Ayuthaya, I thought that it is difficult for you to scare Burma, we are 30,000 miles away, and you can't scare us, why should we listen to your reasoning? Besides, if we want to trade with Japan, we don't need to go around the ends of the earth, we just need to set sail from Mincheng across the Pacific Ocean, can you manage it?

Chen Jian was also helpless, and said in his heart that if he continued like this, he would really betray his relatives and leave.

If Daming is a silver-producing country and a perfect dumping ground for goods, this group of people will inevitably kneel and lick, and they can say anything about the flesh. However, since it is not, and it seems to some that it is only to lure the labor force here into cultivating land in order to collect rent and exploit labor to make money, the waist is naturally much harder.

Seeing that he couldn't talk anymore, Jian Chen coughed heavily, and the next few people were silent.

Jiang Zhili looked worried, but he also knew in his heart that what these people said was really right, and if that happened, I was afraid that there would be another big mess in the future.

If you really force this group of people to go back and support the Japanese chieftains, I am afraid it will cause a catastrophe.

There really seems to be no way to deal with this group of people other than refusing to trade. But cutting off trade is like covering his ears and stealing a bell, Jiang Zhili didn't look at the Great Kyushu Haiguo Zhi sent by Chen Jian, just out of national dignity, but his heart was still very shaken by the horror of going to the country of thousands of miles.

This thing is real, it's not that if you close your eyes and cover your ears and say I can't see, it doesn't exist. At least no one in the Fujian Sailor can cross thousands of miles, but this group of people can run here from tens of thousands of miles away.

There was a little cold for a while, but fortunately, Jian Chen hurriedly said: "Mr. Jiang, the disaster relief matter is urgent. For small and poor households, a catastrophe is enough to ruin a family and make no one survive. ”

"There is a way, there are those who protect the country, and there are those who protect the world. Those who protect the country, eat the king's lu, and be loyal to the king. Meat eaters seek the benefit of meat eaters. Those who protect the world, Lishi agriculture and industry and commerce will be cheap. Otherwise, after the great calamity, people will eat each other, and will they not be beasts? The difference must have been understood by Mr. Jiang after reading the words of the sage. It's the prefect again, and I've always known the hardships at the bottom, so I'm not alarmist, right? Even if the Master and Son were to be resurrected, would they make the people unable to survive for the sake of a momentary rhetorical argument, so that they would throw themselves into the sea, eat people, and cut meat with their legs as wages? ”

"If Mr. Jiang, you think that the master will choose to come back like this, I will leave here without saying a word. If not, let's talk about stabilizing rice prices, post-disaster epidemic prevention, and disaster relief and preparedness. ”

Chen Jian was about to get up, Jiang Zhili sighed, finally nodded and stopped talking about those battles of will, and began to talk to Chen Jian about the future.

"You and I are not from the same country, but we are both human beings. Some things are the same for people. Here the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and in our case it rises and sets in the west. People have parents, wives and children, and they are not plants and trees, how can they be ruthless? There are also some people in the fleet who are good at calculating grain and rice, making overall arrangements, regulating prices, and preventing plagues, and if Mr. Jiang allows them, these people can go ashore together to assist Mr. Jiang in disaster relief. ”

Jiang Zhili looked at Jian Chen, muttering a little in his heart, not knowing what he wanted. In my heart, I always felt that Jian Chen had bad intentions, how could there be such a person in the world?

If he were a Catholic, Jiang Zhili might still be able to believe it, and it sounds like their teachings are still persuasive to be good. The problem is that these people are neither saints nor religious, so it is clear what the purpose of these people is.

It's just that Chen Jian said that he is difficult to refuse, after all, he is still a feudal bureaucrat who is honest and loves the people, and it is always difficult to watch the chaos in Quanzhou.

Chen Jian said: "At this time, the price of rice must have risen, and at this time, even if the merchant is constrained to set the price, the merchant will only choose to close the door." If someone with a heart instigates and smashes the doors and windows to eat a big household, I am afraid that there will be a big mess. This place is close to the sea, and it is really impossible to avoid overseas, for fear of becoming a rebellion. ”

"Moreover, after the catastrophe, can Mr. Jiang know how to take precautions? I guess I don't understand, the witch doctor, the musician, the person who works a hundred jobs, the gentleman is disdainful. It is also clear to Mr. Jiang what his subordinates want to come, otherwise we will send someone to assist Mr. Jiang to show our sincerity. Mr. Jiang only needs to revise a letter and report what we have done to the governor to prove that we are not lawless people like the Japanese Hongyi, and we also have a heart of benevolence and morality. ”

Jiang Zhili didn't refute this, he really didn't understand it, but he had some attainments in ancient books of gold and stone.

Hearing what Jian Chen said so bluntly, he was a little relieved. If you talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, he doesn't believe it, but when it comes to making him fix a book, it is more credible, and he also feels that he has something to rely on when he finally wins a game.

In fact, his letter is not too important, Chen Jian is just taking the opportunity to let the people near Quanzhou know about his group, and it will be more convenient to smuggle people to the island in batches in the future.

If it weren't for the fact that this was the first circumnavigation of the world and had not yet gained a foothold, Chen Jian's choice at this time would definitely be to take people to land in batches and take away the poor people after the disaster.

As long as there is an officially allowed landing, he has the means to control the situation and expand his influence.

After a long discussion, an agreement was finally reached. Chen Jian's fleet was temporarily anchored on a small island outside Quanzhou to shelter from the wind, and rice was taxed at one cent per stone to stabilize prices.

In the following half a month, Chen Jian and his people continued to be busy in the disaster area, selling rice, stabilizing the price of rice, burning the dead, and disdisinfecting lime, and at the same time sending people to distribute sweet potatoes and writing planting manuals to send people to the nearby coastal villages to promote it, so as to relieve the tragic situation of rice harvest after the earthquake and strong winds.

In half a month, the people in the fleet who were in the party organization left a deep impression on Jiang Zhili, and even the impression of Chen Jian was much better. Chen Jian deliberately made friends again, thinking that in the future, when these people were promoted to deputy envoys of Guangdong and became the right political governor of Shandong, Laizhou and Dengzhou.

These two places are extremely important places, not to mention Guangdong, and to the north of Lydon is the Liaodong Peninsula, and if you want to extend your tentacles there in the future, Jiang Zhili is a perfect candidate to make friends.

At this time, the Jesuits had also sent people to China to preach and infiltrate in various ways, and Chen Jian was also buying time with the other party.

The Society of Jesus was a paramilitary organization, with a very tight internal organization and a strong faith, and the missionaries who came to China were considered university students at this time. Astronomy, geography, and medical mathematics were all considered to be the top level in the world at this time, but it was still difficult to gain a foothold in a Catholic problem.

Since science is universal to all mankind, these people brought by Chen Jian are not bad, and some people in the party are better in terms of organization than the Jesuit priests, plus there have been several price wars among the first business speculators in Fujian, and the means are clear, and the price of rice in Quanzhou began to fall within a few days.

Under the instigation of Chen Jian and others, the victims of the disaster, who were originally helpless, began to rush to plant sweet potatoes as food when the harvest was not in turn next spring, and opened a porridge factory in the name of the state capital to stabilize people's hearts.

In the past half month, the number of people who can land ashore has gradually increased, and Lan Qi is busy organizing some epidemic prevention matters, and she is also secretly observing everything here.

Unlike Jian Chen, who knows everything here, Lan Qi is full of curiosity about many things.

Chen Jian is concerned about the enclosure of land, the encirclement of the sea, the payment of taxes, refuge, and the tax package, calculating the yield per mu here and the taxes to be paid every year, calculating how many people can run over each year after gaining a firm foothold in Taiwan, and some places where smugglers can escape from patrols.

Lan Qi, out of her identity as a woman, is particularly interested in the woman who binds her feet, the collapsed archway of chastity.

After asking a few times, I couldn't help but be secretly surprised.

At noon on this day, she and Jian Chen happened to be near a chaste archway, and couldn't help but point to the archway and say, "Isn't this eating people?" ”

Chen Jian spread his hands and said: "Morality is different, and everyone has habits. ”

Lan Qi shook her head and said, "I didn't say morality, I talked about interests." From a moral point of view, the encouragement may have been well intentioned. However, erecting a torii and exempting the family from servitude, isn't this forcing people to death? Even if the woman doesn't want to, the interests of the family force her to keep it. If you count it, if there is a boy who has been sick since he was a child, and he spends some money to buy a woman to marry, and as soon as the man dies, the family will earn it. How much do you think it costs to buy a woman? And how much can the whole family make from tax exemption? ”

Chen Jian hurriedly said: "No, no, it is generally given to the memorial arch when the woman dies." ”

"That's right, so a woman may not be able to keep her alive, and she must find a way to kill her to be martyred. Otherwise, I wouldn't have said it was cannibalism. Especially in the family here, if the woman and the man die and have a child, then the land that the child shares will be gone as long as the child dies, right? ”

Jian Chen nodded, and Lan Qi said again: "So, from the perspective of interest analysis, the best choice is to kill the young child first, and then kill the woman after the child is dead." As long as he throws it into the well, it is said to be a martyrdom, and no one knows. In this way, the property can be recovered, and the whole living family is exempt from taxes......"

Jian Chen hurriedly said: "Actually, we also have a lot of oppression and cannibalism, such as those workshop workers who work for more than ten hours a day, those miners who are stuffed in the mines, and those who dig the river embankment to sell food......

Lan Qi looked at Jian Chen suspiciously, and said strangely, "What's wrong with you?" Like someone stepped on your tail? Yes, there are dark places everywhere, aren't we just going to break through the darkness? When I say things here, it doesn't mean that we don't have them, we eat people everywhere, it's just frying, steaming, roasting and stewing in a different way. What's been weird about you lately? ”

Jian Chen wiped his sweat awkwardly, shook his head and said, "It's nothing...... It's okay. You continue. ”

Lan Qi shrugged and said, "Forget it." I won't say anything. If you're willing to listen, I'll tell you about our darkness, lest I step on your tail again. ”

Said angrily, looking at Jian Chen with his hair down, Jian Chen has often been like this since he landed, sighed, shook his head and left.

Chen Jian stepped on the collapsed archway with one foot and slapped himself fiercely. The heart said that if such perceptual rationality is mixed with schizophrenia, I am afraid that everyone will betray their relatives and leave, and nothing can be done at that time.