From Chief to Ball

Perhaps afraid that Chen Jian would not be tempted, the businessman hurriedly said: "Mr. Governor, the best-selling goods in the coastal areas of the Governorate of Peru are slaves. The seven dings have become three dings, and the number is getting smaller and smaller. And these filthy poor ghosts will cut off their fingers or toes in order to escape the corvee, or run away."

"Therefore, along the coast of the Viceroyalty of Peru, a large number of plantations are deserted, and all plantation owners need a large number of slaves. If your fleet can bring slaves, I can guarantee you three to seven times the profit. You just need to ship the guns to Africa where the chiefs will come and trade them..."

The businessman was still chattering, but Chen Jian interrupted him and asked, "Do all Indians need to serve corvee?"

"No. Kashyyyk doesn't need it, not even if he has a 'Blood Purification Certificate'."

Hearing the two strange proper nouns, Chen Jian was also a little curious. After asking for a long time, he finally figured out what these two things are.

Kasik is similar to a local squire, and is generally a well-known Indian chief in a local village. He is awarded the title by Spain and can serve as a bottom-level manager without paying tribute or corvee.

This "Certificate of Purification of Blood" is an Indian's "carrying citizenship" ceremony.The descendants of chiefs who have obtained this certificate can be regarded as second-class citizens, can have the same status as native whites in name, and can even go to San Marcos University to study.

It needs to be issued by the royal family or the governor, and with the approval of the inspection booth and the church, of course, it can also be bought with money.

When Chen Jian heard that they could be bought with money, Chen Jian was a little moved. If he got some of these certificates, some things would be much simpler, and it would be convenient to carry out some activities in the colony.

The merchant's answer, however, was firm.

"Mr. Governor, are you fluent in Latin?"

"Do not."

"Can you sing hymns?"

"Do not."

"Can you recite the Bible?"

"Do not."

"So, Mr. Governor, this kind of thing cannot be solved by money. It is specially issued by the royal family and the church. It must not only have the blood of the chief, but also study in the affiliated school of San Marcos University and be proficient in Latin. , must be baptized at birth..."

Hearing that it was so troublesome, and that it was no longer something money could solve, he lost interest and discussed some things about commodity smuggling.

After the businessman left, Chen Jian found some smugglers.

In addition to talking about business, it is to ask about the details and systems of some Spanish colonies.

Every time a business is negotiated, Chen Jian will bring an additional condition, hoping that these people can bring some Spanish books during the transaction.

He is not interested in theology, and the books he wants are mainly about Spanish law, especially some royal decrees, colonial governor's decrees, general law and corvee system.

After several days of communication, Chen Jian gradually got a general idea of ​​the Spanish colonies.

Many of the Spaniards' ruling methods in South America are an interesting evolution process, and there are some familiar shadows of Chen Jian everywhere.

In the early days, in some places instead of mines.

For the Indians, the Spaniards used a ruling method similar to that of the early Western Zhou Dynasty.

The Spaniards have the "custodial rights" of the Indians in a certain area, and they are called guardians.

The guardians are similar to the feudal nobles in the Western Zhou Dynasty. They have the right to collect tribute. At the same time, the "wild people" under their rule need to serve the guardians.

To some extent, it is like a well field system like public land and private land. The land owned by the guardian or the land directly under the royal family or the church, those "wild people" need to work time on these public lands every year.Of course, the nominal guardians do not have land ownership, but Emperor Shan Gao will not hinder them.

It's just that the public land is not just a field.There are also buildings, mines, etc., but the essence is the same... A few Indian songs handed down from that era, if translated in classical Chinese, it is like a song "Bin Feng" about different crops and labor in the post-agricultural era ,July".

In terms of cultural output, it is similar to Qi State's policy on Dongyi.

On the one hand, with the towns as the center, schools are established to promote "elegant language".The native Indian nobles need to learn Latin and Spanish culture, because these nobles are the group of people who master culture. As long as these people are changed, culture will be cut off.

On the other hand, it also localizes some local cultures.

For example, Our Lady of Guadalupe, this is not Mary, but a new Virgin based on the local Indians. This kind of behavior can be burned to some extent.

When promoting the Bible, allow Indians to worship and pray in the way they are used to.In order to make the Indians accept it, some missionaries changed the things on the table into guinea pigs, alpacas, tequila or Zamao when telling the story of the Last Supper...

In just 40 years, the ills of the classical colonial system, which is very suitable for the Bronze Age, began to emerge, because it is already the post-agricultural era, and the set of well fields plus country and field is outdated, but cultural assimilation is still not effective. Yes, this is worth learning.

Under the difference between the country and the country, the wild people go to cultivate the "public land", and they have to abandon their private land, so they are naturally dissatisfied.Productivity has advanced to the iron age of ox farming, so there is no future in doing so.

As a result, the Spanish royal family took a step forward. In terms of centralization, it came to a place similar to that of a half-empty lord, and in terms of plundering methods, it came to the post-agricultural era and the early stage of the handicraft era.

The guardian still governs those "wild people", but no longer has the right to collect labor and manage the "public land" for them, but can only collect taxes.The custodian has become a half-vague aristocrat with several households in Shiyi, instead of the original real power aristocrat, which is equivalent to taking a small step towards centralization.

The land system has also begun to undergo some changes. At the beginning, land ownership was not clear, but with the bankruptcy of the Spanish royal family more than ten years ago, the private land system became clear-the royal family needed to sell land for money.

All those who own the land can obtain the ownership of the land they occupy by paying a ransom tax.This is for whites or native whites or descendants of chiefs who bought a "certificate of holy blood purification."

For those aborigines at the lowest level, the system of graded land distribution is appropriately adopted, and a certain amount of land is allocated according to the different grades of aborigines.At the same time, the villages were merged and the large tracts of land vacated were legally "purchased" by the white "pioneering group".

In some mining areas, the aborigines are drawn one out of seven and replaced every seven years to carry out the labor of digging ore.Give money in name.But it is pets, not people, and the little money given is at most one-third of the annual taxes and family expenses.

Therefore, in the case of "voluntary", the wife and children have to go to mine. A normal family of four can be equal to the consumption of tax payment. If there is one more person and can live to 20 years old, it is considered to be earned.

The scene of mining is too scary, especially some mercury mines. The highly toxic mercury vapor makes the average life expectancy of these miners below 23 years old.

Some mothers who love their children often cut off their children's fingers or big toes before they become adults, so that they don't have to serve Mida.

After all, colonization is just a few tricks to play around with.Although Chen Jian's language ability is average, some things can be roughly guessed with a little analysis of the issue of interests.

Changing the name of many things puts them in other places without much sense of disobedience: changing the Indian Kasik, who ruled at the grassroots level, into a gentry is easier to understand, and they are all tax-free, privileged and exempt from corvee; those who bought a blood purification certificate A descendant of a chief is equivalent to raising his nationality or becoming a second-class emperor.

As for economic plunder, the Spanish royal family also understands their own weight, understands that their handicrafts are underdeveloped, and because banknotes have not yet appeared in circulation, they cannot plunder by means of military coupons, but they use a more magical method: commodity coercion Quota purchases.

When the ships monopolizing the trade came, they distributed the goods of the royal trade to the heads of the various local governors, and asked them to sell these things.Each village is allocated some, and you have to buy it if you buy it, or you have to buy it if you don’t buy it.

If this policy is controlled by representatives of advanced productive forces, it is not impossible: if these compulsory apportioned goods can be turned into domestic machinery, domestic cloth, and domestic handicraft products, so as to accumulate funds to complete the development of handicraft industry, from the perspective of nationalism, it is future. Can be blamed.

The problem is that there are too few domestic products for sale. Spain is a big wool-producing country, but it still has to import wool from its poor neighbors in the north.

If one peso worth of goods is distributed, the magistrate can sell them for three pesos.

The bottom is naturally dissatisfied.

However, the magistrate is in charge of the judiciary, and the appeal will only happen in the case of who kneels down in the hall and who sues the magistrate for what reason.

This is now, and later, Governor Velasco said to eat jujube pills like this, reform it, set a detailed price and apportioned amount, and clarified the amount of Mingmu.

The local governor naturally has a way to take advantage of the situation to create a "fire consumption". The goods are apportioned to be depleted, so [-]% to [-]% of the "fire consumption" is collected. This is a legal collection, not a private apportionment. The governor tacitly agrees .

Later, the royal family went bankrupt again, thinking that selling officials was a good way to earn money, so everyone bought officials one after another to become county magistrates.

Became a county magistrate in order to raise money. I bought a county magistrate for [-] pesos, and his three-year salary was only [-] pesos.

As a result, some county magistrates decisively assigned the apportionment tasks to three to five years later in New Spain and Peru.For the time being, it has not been done in the [-]th century to send apportionments to the [-]th century so shockingly.