From Chief to Ball

However, Chen Jian didn't say that the cotton cloth must be shipped back. Anyway, the cotton cloth is not worried about selling here, so these people don't care, and they are all thinking about making a lot of money in the future.

Commitment without signing a contract, those promises are meaningless, only rely on moral constraints.Whether Chen Jian wants these cotton cloths will not affect these people's adoption of new machines. Cotton cloth is a public consumable and can be sold no matter what.

For more than half a month after the banquet, Chen Jian has been staying in the port, and the goods on the ship have basically been sold, leaving only the goods when he returned.

This is not something that can be fully prepared in a day or two, and Chen Jian is not in a hurry.

There is an endless stream of people who come here every day to take pictures and watch hot air balloons, and some people come here specifically to find Chen Jian.

In the name of a Mr. Xuegong, some experiments in the capital last year were also spread to the Taixue here. Many people came here with an attitude of studying. Chen Jian did not hide his secrets. answer.

Soon after the banquet, the shuttle looms had begun to be manufactured on a large scale, and the weavers were still the same weavers, but the machines were changed.

After the new cotton cloth is woven by those weavers, its quality is almost the same as that of the previous ones, the cloth is wider, and there are not too many technical requirements, so it is very easy to promote.

This thing really cannot be hidden. After the new cotton cloth is produced, the loom will soon spread to other places.

……

At the end of June, in the palace of the capital of Qi State on the upper reaches of the river.

Several young court nobles stood on both sides of the current Marquis Qi, and there were some things on the case table.

The current Marquis Qi played curiously with the binoculars he got through some channels, and couldn't help nodding.

In addition to the telescope, there are also a few black and white photos, a photo of a hot air balloon flying in mid-air, and some architectural features of Mincheng.

A bayonet-loaded flintlock rifle was fired across the front, and the records of that strange sailing ship had just been delivered.

In addition to these, there are also some materials about Chen Jian's experiments in the academy, as well as many things that have been spread here, all of which are on the desk.

Qihou, who is in his 40s, has a wide range of knowledge. Although he can't understand some things, he doesn't know everything. He has dabbled in various subjects and is very clear about the effects and functions of these things written on paper.

A few months ago, he knew about some things that happened in the school on the other side, and last year he heard about the hot air balloon from the messenger who returned from the other side.

He really didn't expect that a person who was staring at Mr. Xuegong's name would come to do business in person, let alone such things as telescopes and flintlock guns.

It always takes some time for news to spread. When Chen Jian's ship arrived at the trading port, it only caused a stir in the port city.

As the sensation became more and more shocking, someone naturally sent these things here, and due to time constraints, Qi Hou had just learned about it.

After a long while, he put down the binoculars and asked a person beside him, "Is what you heard accurate? This Chen Jian didn't take the normal route, didn't jump to the island or take the northern route, but went directly here?"

"Yes. According to what the sailors said, Chen Jian set off from Mincheng on May 23th, rested on an uninhabited island for three days, and arrived at the port on May [-]rd. Excluding the halfway rest It only took fourteen days to get here in the three days before. Several sailors said so, and it is said that they came here by some latitude and longitude."

"Latitude and longitude?"

A person next to him briefly explained that it was easy to understand. Qi Hou glanced at it for a while and nodded, saying: "This is not a novelty, it's nothing more than star-stretching, but more precise. It can be reached directly after one trial voyage, which shows that the navigation skills there are already a bit higher than ours. After all, our land is narrow and there are few people, no more than China’s homeland.”

Looking at the telescope, flintlock guns and photos, he shook his head and said, "These things are really exquisite, really amazing."

After thinking for a while, he finally said: "Well, let's send someone to invite him here. One is from me personally, and the other is from the Taixue students. It's only been a month, and it takes more than a month for him to get all the goods he traded back. It's been a while, and he probably hasn't left yet."

"Yes."

Chapter 137 The Marquis of Qi's Counterattack

Qi State is a strange country.

At the time of enfeoffment, it was one of the few Marquis states, who moved away from their original hometown and was thrown by Chen Jian to the seaside. At that time, there were some land and population of Dongyi Rongdi.

The important thing left by Chen Jian in his previous life was to forcibly drag this ethnic group into the post-agricultural era.

Cattle, horses and livestock, columbine cart drill, blast furnace iron, various new iron agricultural tools, irrigation and interplanting technology, gunpowder spears, field artillery cavalry and smoothbore matchlock guns, writing...

Compared with the surrounding ethnic groups that were still in the age of copper and stone in the state, this is the crushing of productivity and combat effectiveness. The extremely high population growth rate and some indescribable cultural assimilation policies allow these ethnic groups to colonize and adapt at an extremely fast speed. for cultivated land.

Hundreds of years ago, it was different from Chen Jian who spent 30 to [-] years as a teacher to create a large number of literate people and assimilated and killed batch after batch of old Chinese with the advantages of civilization.

Being thrown into the sea where the four enemies look around, the only policy that Qi can adopt is to rely on the enfeoffment of those people of the same clan, and the colonial assimilation of the basic plate has been completed in hundreds of years.

When the big island where Qi is located today was discovered, there were primitive tribes on the island.But the island also has gold, copper mines and large tracts of fertile and flat land.

With the help of guns and cannons, tribal infighting was instigated, private armed forces, escaped serfs, and adventurers eager to make a fortune poured in from the northern peninsula... The latitude of this island is just right, and the expansion of the same latitude is far easier than the longitude expansion .

In less than a hundred years, intermarriage and assimilation have basically controlled this island of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and the center of gravity is basically in the coastal and river areas.

It would have been a perfect example of classical colonial times if not for the unfinished war of unification.

However, with the beginning of the Unification War, the republic, which seems to have a strange system of dictatorship, has more centralized power, and the monarchy, which has a sacred blood, has serious decentralization.

As the situation changed, a large number of old nobles, servants loyal to the old system, some coerced soldiers, etc., moved to the island together with Qihou.

At that time, the army was at sea, the interior was chaotic, the price of goods was soaring, and the land of the old Houbo country was full of people being killed.

Under heavy pressure, this group of old nobles united like never before, won the naval battle, and the situation on the island finally stabilized.

But new contradictions arose.

The father of the current Marquis of Qi, after being defeated on the island, learned from the painful experience.

I dug out those old books from ancient times, and read some ancient books, from the ancient times "Theory of Contradictions between Yin and Yang", "Who is the enemy and who is the friend", "How to exploit reasonably", "Analyze and investigate realistically" and other books .

After watching for two years, I finally realized that the situation on the island is very different from before.

The basis of the previous rule was the old nobles who were all related by blood. They owned land, and they also supported the sanctity of blood and maintained the hierarchy.

And now on the island, these old nobles have no land, only the most meaningless bloodlines today.The foundation of the rule is no longer these people, but the soldiers and a large number of ordinary people who came here.

These people have nothing, and the original people on the island, apart from the owner farmers, also have large estate owners, large mine owners, and large landowners.

The new contradiction is that between the outsider and the earlier group.

Newcomers to the island have no land, and their hearts are unstable; those who came to the island earlier to cultivate and plant have land and serfs, but they will never happily give up all these because of kinship, blood and so on.

A change is imperative, otherwise it will be untenable and a new vested interest class must be cultivated.

After reading those books handed down from the ancient times that Hou Boguo regarded as unknown books, the previous Qihou suddenly realized that people tend to become smart under great pressure.

It's a pity that he was already old at that time, and he only did a few things besides educating a child well.

Don't touch the interests of the old forces on the island, and cooperate temporarily.

Set the capital in the southern part of the island, where the old forces were weakest, encourage farming, open schools, centralize power, and rule directly under the central government.

When a large number of old nobles fled to the island, causing soaring prices and heavy metal currency inflation, they monopolized shipping, set up a national bank, minted coins, restricted prices, collected gold and silver, and implemented a rationing system for a period of time.

Controlling the navy, grasping the military power of the navy, monopolizing the smuggling trade, controlling prices on the island, cracking down on speculators, supporting pirates to occupy the northern route, cutting off the smuggling trade between the old forces in the north and China, and exploring the trade route of the southern islands.