Chapter 806 Nanzhou Ji: God must be playing with me

This is obviously a battleship, a cruiser of 2,000 materials, and the hull with red and black stripe paint is particularly eye-catching.

It must be fake! This battleship is still coming from the south, how is it possible!?

Until the sampan put down by the battleship landed on the shore, Zhong Shangwei still felt that this was a dream.

A blue-clothed officer with a golden dragon coat of arms on his shoulder appeared in front of him, pinched his chin and said, "Yo...... What a grand welcome ceremony", and then the dark-skinned officer in his thirties looked at Zhong Shang, looked at Zhong Shang, looked at it for a long time, and said uncertainly: "Zhong ...... Master Zhong? ”

Zhong Shangwei was in a trance, and asked with difficulty: "My lord, ......?"

The officer grinned: "I'm Lu Hanshan, Master Zhong must not remember Lu Sanzai in the Fengtian Village mine back then." ”

Zhong Shang's spirit finally woke up, and his already broken mind recondensed, turned into tears, and gushed out, he rushed forward and hugged the officer's thigh, and cried loudly, crying and shouting: "General Lu, you are my reborn parents!" In the next life, I will be a cow and a horse, and I will repay this great kindness, ahh......hhh

"Sure enough, it's Master Zhong...... When he hugged His Majesty's leg in Fengtian Village and begged for help in making cannons, it was this virtue. ”

Lu Hanshan suppressed the urge to kick away the fat man who was rubbing his nose on his legs, and sent out a deep sigh of emotion, thousands of miles away overseas, he actually met the "old know", God is really interesting.

"But when it comes to great kindness......

Looking at the crowd that was obviously divided into two sides, especially Fang Wu, who looked like an executioner, and Xu Fu, who was tortured, Lu Hanshan frowned and said, "This is Coral Prefecture, which one are you playing?" ”

Another plainclothes man in his early fifties appeared, glanced at the two parties, and then looked at Fang Wu, who was kneeling on the ground, with mixed tastes and didn't know how to speak, and Xu Fu, who seemed to be crying with joy. sighed: "I think this coral state has lost its righteousness, there is no national law, and our Lan family's Lizhou has also had this kind of chaos, and what is the specific thing is secondary." ”

Lu Hanshan sighed: "Sure enough. We also saw some chaos in Langzhou. No wonder His Majesty said that the matter of overseas reclamation is not so simple, and the imperial court cannot completely let it go. ”

He said to Zhong Shangwei again: "Don't thank me, Master Zhong, you should thank His Majesty the Emperor, if it weren't for His Majesty's lofty Sacred Heart and this plan, Brother Ding Yuan and I would not have met at the right time." Appears in this coral state. ”

Zhong Shangwei, Fang Wu and others thought that this was just a scene, but no matter how rough Lu Hanshan explained, everyone felt that it was the emperor who saved them.

Why did Lu Hanshan, who was transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Fleet, appear in Coral State, and the battleship still came from the south?

The direct reason is that Xiao Sheng sorted out a new development strategy for the navy, the purpose of which is to "lay out the east of the universe", that is, enclosure. From the fifteenth year of the Word. Each of the Navy's four fleets must delineate their own spheres of influence, and at the same time, implement a system of training for their own territory.

The specifics of the new strategy are difficult to describe. One of them is that the qualifications of the chief officer of the Navy warship have been transferred, and the item "patrolling the sea frontier" has been added. Generally speaking, no matter which fleet you are in, if you want to be a captain, you must have the experience of sailing with the ship to the extreme regions of the sea.

The ocean is to go to Dongzhou, the North Ocean is to the Arctic Ice Sea, the Western Ocean is to Europa, and the South Sea...... Because Lu Hanshan had a great appetite, Nanzhou was also included in the scope of the Nanyang Fleet, so patrolling Nanzhou became a necessary qualification for the warship commander. This time, Lu Hanshan took the lead and set an example. drove the cruiser around Nanzhou, and only then did he reach Coral State from the south.

..., the reason why Xiao Sheng was able to implement the new strategy was because he not only received an additional budget from the emperor, but also learned about Yinghua's medium and long-term sea and land strategy in the future, so he had the confidence to spread out a big stall to engage in the blossoming of the four oceans.

And as far as the emperor and even the Anglo-Chinese country are concerned. Focusing on the navy is not only military, but also military, political, and even scientific. Lu Hanshan's ship was not only Lan Dingyuan, a civilian person who temporarily worked in Zhongshu Province to investigate and consult on colonial affairs, but also researchers from the Ministry of Agriculture, researchers investigating crops, intelligence people from the Privy Council, investigating the geographical environment, officials from the Ministry of Commerce, investigating strategic resources and national interests, and even astronomers from Qin Tianjian to see what was going on in the astronomical astronomy in the southern hemisphere.

In other words, Lu Hanshan's trip around Nanzhou carried many national research topics. Exploring the status of the trusteeship areas of various companies in Nanzhou is a more direct inspection commission of Zhongshu Province, which is also in the interests of the navy.

In the new naval strategy implemented by Xiao Sheng, overseas company territories such as Coral State have very important strategic significance, and the navy can rely on these territories to firmly control the corresponding maritime frontiers. As a result, the Navy is asking the Trust Territories to strengthen their ports and to set up maintenance and supply depots for the Navy. Of course, the Navy's reward is regular patrols, liaison on behalf of the Navy, and even the spending of officers and men on the shore all contribute to the economic development of the Trust Territory.

"General, why don't you think so much now, we just want to go back......"

Zhong Shangwei complained bitterly with a handful of snot and tears, and understood the current situation in Coral Prefecture, especially when the grain was gone, Lu Hanshan spread his hands and said: "I still expect to replenish food in Coral Prefecture, the granary on the ship is already empty." ”

The reason why Coral Prefecture is like this is that Zhong Shangwei and Fang Wu turned into soil emperors, manipulating dart masters and miners to oppress the peasants, and the peasants were unwilling to be enslaved and gathered to fight against each other, all because of the lack of food. For an expedition of more than a dozen people, Ru Mao can survive by drinking blood, but five or six hundred people have to spend three months or more in this wilderness, and food is everything. The huge panic caused by the loss of food suddenly collapsed the normal order that was barely maintained in the coral state.

Hearing Lu Hanshan say that there was no food in the navy, Zhong Shangwei and Fang Wu, as well as Xu Fu, who was summoned by Lu Hanshan as a representative of the peasants, were cold in their hearts, and the strange thing was that they didn't feel how terrible it was, and they didn't even take it too seriously, they only felt regretful, and they didn't fall into panic again.

Vice Admiral Lu Hanshan brought something more important...... Order, in the name of the emperor, the righteousness of the motherland, and the authority of the army, and this order has collapsed in the hearts of Zhong Shangwei and others.

"When you don't have food, you don't want to help each other, but you kill each other!? Coral State is not a desert of the Han Sea, there are fish in the sea, birds and beasts on the land. It's really not good, go to the depths of the land, and catch those two-legged beasts to satisfy your stomach! Look what you guys did!? Are you still my Anglo-Chinese national? Lan is really ashamed to call you compatriots! ”

"Don't you Xianzhou Company know Coral State very well? Why don't you stand up and speak up and twist everyone into a rope? ”

Lan Dingyuan angrily reprimanded, Zhong Shangwei, Fang Wu, and stayed out of the chaos. The explorers of Xianzhou Company who were watching from the wall all drooped their heads, not daring to speak, they were extremely ashamed in their hearts.

"Lord Qingtian, I want to sue Master Zhong and Fang Darttou to force the good people. Grass Kan human life! ”

Xu Fu held his head high and was full of confidence, when justice was administered by the imperial court, the bad guys had to pay the price!

Zhong Shangwei was not convinced, and in turn accused the peasants of just burying their heads in their own lives, and did not think about the coral state as a whole at all. …,

Representatives of the miners were also not convinced. It is said that the peasants disregard the law of the country and disregard human life. The miner violated Xu Fu's daughter-in-law, why did he beat him to death without being convicted after trial? From this, it is said that after the grain depot was burned, the peasants themselves hurriedly protected the grain seeds, and did not want to take a single grain out, did they have the intention of sitting and watching others starve to death? You must protect yourself and give no one a way to live. Don't complain about the evil.

Of course, Xu Fu wanted to accuse the miners of being violent and domineering, but the miners' representatives gritted their teeth and shed tears. It is said that they miners were not trusted from the beginning, whether it was Mr. Zhong, Fang Darttou, or farmers, they were all regarded as potential villains. With such prejudice against them, it is no wonder that the miners return evil for evil.

There was already a blood feud on both sides, and they couldn't fight each other, Zhong Shangwei was terrified when he heard it, and he didn't know what crime he was going to be convicted of, so he hurriedly got involved with Fang Wu. said that he was coerced by Fang Wu. Fang Wu almost fainted, he had this heart, but before he could put it into action, your Master Zhong himself was posted as a dog-headed military advisor, so Fang Wu quarreled with Zhong Shangwei again.

The people from Xianzhou Company didn't explain much, so they shrugged their shoulders at Lu Hanshan and the others. The meaning is very clear, if it is like this, they outsiders have no prestige, and Li Shun, who has prestige, is still sick in bed, of course there is no way to get involved.

When order was restored, everyone climbed up to it and began to seek justice for themselves. Obviously, what is most lacking in Coral State is not food, but justice in everyone's hearts.

Lan Dingyuan said with emotion: "All parties don't trust, of course they can't twist a rope, of course they have to kill each other." ”

Lu Hanshan asked: "Then how did you lose this trust?" Hundreds of people have crossed the ocean to this foreign land thousands of miles away, and there should be a deep trust between them. ”

Miners, peasants, colonial companies......

Lan Dingyuan sighed: "The great profit is overwhelming, and the trust will naturally be lost." ”

The great profit of Coral State is the copper mines, and the copper mines are gone, and the colonial companies and miners who are counting on the big profits in the immediate future will naturally not be able to get together with the farmers who are counting on the long-term profits.

Lu Hanshan nodded: "Always thinking about huge profits, once things don't work, the demon moths will come out." Langzhou is also like this, thinking that he can make a fortune with spices, but he didn't expect that the water and soil were not adaptable, and the early hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were all lost. Then the local governor and lord Bo Hei came down and wanted to grow poppies secretly, hehe...... Killing themselves, there are now dozens of families left in that place to farm and fish, and the Lin family is also selling business rights everywhere. ”

He counted the bell on the top position: "You businessmen, you are too greedy!" ”

Zhong Shangwei said aggrievedly: "If it is not for ten times and a hundred times the profit, who wants to expand in such a reckless place?" Just for small profits, it is enough to squat in the middle of the country to buy treasury bonds and speculate in stocks. ”

Fang Wu, the miners, and even the people of Xianzhou Company all nodded secretly, not for big profits, who is willing to gamble their lives and a lifetime of future to come overseas?

Listening to Lu Hanshan talk about the Lin family's Langzhou, Lan Dingyuan thought of his Lan family's Dongmingzhou, shook his head with a wry smile: "But the reality is like this, and great profits are not something that can be obtained just by having a will, and it is still determined by God." Those of you who want to make great profits have fallen, but instead you have taken root overseas and landed overseas, and those who only want to live a good life have benefited. ”

At this time, whether it was Lu Hanshan or Lan Dingyuan, they only saw the phenomenon and did not summarize the law, unlike their emperor who had the immortal eyes of three hundred years later. The tide of overseas colonization divided into several waves, and the profiteering merchants set off the first wave of direct plundering of commercial goods, and after it subsided, what remained were poor people who only wanted to live. These people found and nurtured industries suitable for the local area overseas, providing raw materials and markets for the second wave of colonization. …,

It was precisely because they saw that the current colonial tide of Nanyang and even Nanzhou was still stuck in the first wave, that their emperor took the initiative to push the colonial tide to the second wave from various aspects such as colonial decrees. But there is always a gap between reality and aspirations, as well as planning, and here in Coral State, the short-term profits of businessmen and the long-term profits and small profits of immigrants are not kneaded together, so people's hearts have collapsed to this point.

Although it has not been sublimated into a theory, what Lan Dingyuan is doing at the moment is to look at the colonial situation of Nanyang and Nanzhou. He still had a sensibility, and he asked Zhong Shangwei: "If you all settled in Coral State and made Coral State your home, would things have come to this point?" ”

Zhong Shangwei did not speak. Fang Wu sighed on the side, at least Fang Wu felt that if he was like those peasants, he would naturally think more about what he would do, and he would not be like before, once he was determined. There are almost no scruples.

After reviewing and summarizing, the reality must be faced after all, the turmoil in Coral State must be rectified, and national law and righteousness cannot be described as child's play here.

In accordance with the authority granted by the Overseas Colonization Act, Lu Hanshan declared that the Coral State had been transferred to military control, temporarily abolished the rights and interests of the Coral State Township Court and the Coral State Colonial Company, and established a temporary circuit court. He served as a judge to clean up the crimes committed during the unrest. This is to establish justice for all parties in Coral State, otherwise there will be no way for all parties to work together in the future.

Most of the officials and non-governmental figures who came with the ship were scholars. I don't know much about the law, but I am still familiar with paperwork, so Lan Dingyuan and others took on the duties of the prosecutor and began to investigate in depth what happened in Coral State during this time. The Clock Boss, Fang Wu, and many representatives of the miners were also obediently detained, pending the judgment of the law. Zhong Shangwei didn't feel that he was guilty, but Fang Wu and the others were relieved.

With such an investigation, Lu Hanshan and Lan Dingyuan both felt that it was a little tricky.

The previous unrest in Coral State involved crimes such as rape, homicide, and coercion and looting.

Several of the miners who committed the crime of rape have been beaten to death, and Hu Xi has committed suicide.

The peasants who were killed without interrogation were led by Fang Wu to plunder the grain and coerce the miners. Attempted murder.

To put it simply, the living are all mud in the crotch, and no one can wash it off. If it is in the country, there is no need to be embarrassed, what is judged is what is judged, and the two sides play the board together. But at the moment, everyone is still facing difficulties. As a judge in the military district, he has cheap adjudication powers, and Lu Hanshan feels that he can try to mediate.

The key to this matter depends on whether all parties can let go of their knots, forgive each other, and start anew.

When Lu Hanshan passed Lan Dingyuan and passed the meaning to all parties, everyone was silent for a while.

"If the contract between the company and you and us is still valid, you can still keep this hundred acres of land, don't lose the future for me......"

Xu Wang's family was still helping her husband calculate, and her tears kept flowing.

"As for me, when the matter is over and you are settled, I will throw myself into the sea. Wash your innocence, reincarnate in the next life, and return you as a daughter-in-law. ”

Originally, husband and wife were just ordinary affection, but after this great difficulty, the affection was as high as a mountain, and Xu Wang's family felt even more faceless.

Xu Fu said angrily: "What a stupid thing! If you are gone, will you be able to live this life? ”

The husband took out his majesty, and Xu Wang cried loudly, and there was no longer the will to die. And the next question, as Xu Wang said, is their contract with the Coral State Company still valid. The farmers have changed their minds and have suffered this hardship, so why not persevere and hold on to their future days in Coral State?

But the knot in their hearts is here, in the face of those miners, in the face of Fang Wu, and even in the face of Zhong Shangwei, can they throw away their previous grudges? And will the old things happen again in the future? …,

The peasants' worries were conveyed to Zhong Shangwei and Fang Wu and others, and Fang Wu joked: "At the beginning, they were willing to take the muskets, maybe there would be no such thing, and now it is not too late", Zhong Shangwei was muttering, the copper mine is gone, why are you still feeding these hundred families?

Lan Dingyuan said disdainfully: "Feed? Master Zhong, people are supporting themselves, your company is just borrowing some capital, don't keep treating yourself as a farmer's parent, maybe this coral state will have to rely on them to support you in the future. ”

At this time, Li Shun also had his senses, and angrily counted down Zhong Shangwei and Fang Wu, and almost vomited blood and said: "I Li Shun didn't give up these two words in his dictionary!" Lao Zhong, if you want to withdraw your shares, it's up to you, this coral state, I'm going to decide! ”

Zhong Shangwei hurriedly smiled, and said in a row that when we partnered to establish a company, we had a bloody alliance, how could we lose it easily? said this, but tears flowed in his stomach, and he secretly sighed that he was going to be trapped in a broken place in his life.

With the background of the Coral State Company's insistence and the promise of high compensation to the miners whose futures were shattered, it is much easier for all parties to resolve their grievances, after all, they all have to look forward.

Three days later, Lan Dingyuan completed the mediation, and Lu Hanshan announced that the crimes of the previous turmoil in Coral State would not be investigated for the time being, and they were just records.

The interior is straightened out, everyone looks forward, and their mentality is much calmer, and if they solve the food problem, everyone will be able to twist into a rope.

On behalf of the company, Li Shun and Zhong Shang, under the witness of Lu Hanshan, promised to compensate the farmers after the opening of the voyage, so the farmers took out the grain seeds buried in the ground to temporarily alleviate the crisis.

Then the hunt was organized, and not only the explorers of the Xianzhou Company played a key role, but also the botanists and botanists on the battleship also came in handy, and they found a lot of wild edible plants.

After a few days, the food problem is no longer too worrying, and the coral state has ushered in a surprise.

In the turmoil, the livestock of the farm were fought over by both sides, the shed collapsed, the fence collapsed, and two ploughing oxen, more than a dozen sheep, and several horses fled without a trace.

The wilderness has lost its livestock, and no one has any hope. Unexpectedly, the animals actually ran back, probably looking for dry ingredients such as beans. And these animals ran for more than ten days, not only did they not lose much, but they also gained a little fat and a little light.

An expert from the Ministry of Agriculture said, "This is a good place to raise livestock!" ”

That's right, there are no beasts here, the terrain is open, the climate is similar to the Central Plains north of the Yellow River, the water and grass are not fat, but they are enough for livestock to live happily, and it is suitable for raising cattle, sheep and even horses.

Zhong Shangwei's heart jumped, especially horses, which are very lacking in China. Recently, although it has become a new land in the north of the desert, the price of transportation from the northwest to the south is still very high, and the Nanyang is even more short of horses, and the Nanyang Islands are not a good place to raise horses.

"But we don't know anything about it......"