From Chief to Ball

He raised his head, glanced at Chen Jian, paused for a moment and said: "I know Mr. Chen doesn't like the slave trade, but this is just Mr. Chen's personal idea. For the company, profit is the first goal. Grant the right to advise Mr. Chen with the ship. Although the decision is in your hands, I must say this opinion. It is not profitable for the Nanyang Trading Company to establish an immigration point here. The same silver coin is thrown in This kind of vegetable growing as a supply is far less profitable than shipping trade. If you want to build a trading post or even a fort in Luanda, I will definitely support you as a representative of the trading company on board the ship. But here, I will start from From the perspective of shareholders' interests, it is against."

Chen Jian nodded, then asked the rest of the people, "What about you?"

Those few people also nodded and said: "We don't support it either. We understand Mr. Chen's decision to give up the spice trade, because we have no reach there, and we don't have the ability. But here, we can't think of a reason to support it."

After hearing the words for a long time, Chen Jian laughed loudly and said, "Okay, I'm relieved, you are qualified shareholders' on-board representatives, and you are also qualified businessmen."

Chapter 41 The Sharpest Sword

The laughter was not mocking, but genuine admiration.

The few people quickly asked: "Mr. Chen gave up the idea of ​​the immigration point?"

Chen Jian shook his head and said: "But I am not just a businessman, nor just a director of a trading company, I am also a member of a party, plus the consideration of national interests granted by the council and the king. You are doing the right thing, really, this The immigration point really shouldn't use the money of the trading company."

"Mr. Chen is determined to build an immigration center here?"

"Yes."

"But did you make the decision based on that identity?"

"personal."

"Then we don't have the right to make suggestions. However, the employees and craftsmen of the company will give the greatest support to everything Mr. Chen does. This is guaranteed. Even employees can be rented temporarily, and we will not make any objections." .”

"That's good."

Chen Jian thought for a long time, but he could only make this decision in his own name.The rest, on either side, will not support him.

People often fall into a strange way of thinking, yearning for justice when they are poor and weak, and praising imperialism when they are strong.

Even if the party is making progress, it has not reached the point where it thinks that all mankind is benefiting.As Lan Qi said, the domestic affairs have not been resolved, so there is no need to focus on others. Unless there is any kind of internationalism as an ideology, it will not make sense and the thinking will be confused. .

As the news of the vast world spread back to the country, and with the completion of this round-the-world voyage, the domestic ideology is really a combination of left, middle and right.

A large part of the Progressive Alliance will quickly turn to the right, and even the Mexican Party will split again, and many of the things Chen Jian wants to do are acts of treason—if everything remains the same, some parties in the Republic must prefer a The Tartar of the Opium War was not a China reborn from the ashes, so Chen Jian's life can only be a "traitor" in the evaluation of some people in later generations.

When there is an opportunity to engage in a war of aggression, massacre, and slavery to improve the country's strength, I am afraid that some members of the Mexican Party will also vote in favor.Of course, there will also be some people who will be regarded as "sick", "traitorous", "shameful", "should be hanged" and other evaluations by later generations, with republicanism, democracy, freedom, peace, the interests of the people, etc. What they believed in, like Byron, devoted himself to the Greek independence movement that had nothing to do with him, and like Jaures, was sacrificed before the war.

For the Republic, the countless lands around the Great Deserted City at this time are enough to accommodate the country's population. This piece of land is meaningless for the time being. The same energy can be used to do more things on the coast of the Great Deserted City.Even if they have the mentality of fighting for world hegemony, they will first put their minds on the coast of the Great Deserted City and the Spanish American colonies.

For Nanyang Company, it is a very straightforward benefit.Compared with here, they are more willing to spend money to explore a Pacific route from Min County to the east, rather than put energy and equity here.

But since it was his personal behavior, the representatives of all parties in the fleet did not object, but gave support as much as possible, as a personal relationship or a kind of respect.

The planks of the sunken ship were disintegrated on the coast, and the best planks could quickly complete the construction of the house in the hands of the carpenter.

There are also some low trees here, plus the surrounding rocks and soil, it is not a problem for more than a thousand people to build a fortress with a defensive function for seven or eighty people to live temporarily.

The cattle, sheep, and horses purchased from Europe and Luanda, as well as some crop seeds and farming equipment that had been carried earlier were also unloaded from the ship.

Those who choose to stay, are here only temporarily as employees.Chen Jian promised to give them three times their wages and would pick them up after three years.

During these three years, all the reclaimed land, the bred cattle and sheep, and the coins of vegetables, pork and mutton purchased from them by passing ships also belong to them personally.

If you choose to stay here after three years, you can continue to stay.If you want to go back, you will exchange the land, cattle and sheep here for silver coins at the market price in Min County, and send them back.

Their role is just to be an outpost here, responsible for surveying the nearby land and rivers, building a good relationship with the nearby aborigines, and teaching the local aborigines some ethnic groups' languages.

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The nearby brown aborigines who pronounced as if they were stuttering expressed extreme curiosity about the fleet building houses here, but they did not express hostility.

Chen Jian gave the nearby family settlement a convex lens that can ignite fire, a piece of fire, and a pair of white phosphorus matches that were extremely miraculous at the time.

This kind of friendly exchange has also brought back enough returns. There is a shortage of labor here, and the lives of these aborigines are mainly gathering and hunting. "The outsiders who came came to communicate, and even carried stones in exchange for food.

Soon, several people in the fleet went deep into the settlement of the aborigines, and they each had different concerns.

What Lan Qi paid attention to was the strange marriage customs of these people.

The marriage customs system here has the obvious habit of early matrilineal and early patrilineal. Men will not marry their own sisters, but will marry women in other settlements, but will stay in the women's settlement to help with work for a period of time.

Coupled with the strange marriage customs in other settlements or some issues about the status of men and women, as well as the wave of divorces among female employees of commercial companies in Fujian County, Lan Qi was thinking about what caused these problems.

And here is the strange understanding of the concept of "ownership", which includes private ownership, public ownership, and even the concept of common ownership by all; together with these people's ignorance of currency, exchange, and media, Lan Qi fell into curious thinking , considering the similarities and differences and internal connections.

After Lin Xi rested from the turbulence, she looked at this ethnic group with a different perspective, and used everything she had learned to examine the various behaviors of these aborigines in the friendly atmosphere created by Chen Jian. Everything I saw and thought was written down in my notebook at night.

"Men here regard women with plump buttocks as beautiful, and think that the bigger the buttocks are, the more beautiful they are. From an anatomical point of view, there is no doubt that women with big buttocks can reproduce more easily .”

"The establishment of beauty requires a process. Whether this process is spontaneous or human-driven, at least this group's definition of women's beauty has verified the inference in the book "The Reproduction of Humans and Animals"-the manifestation of human animal nature. It is to choose a mate that is more suitable for reproduction. Whether it is male or female, the survival of offspring is the first element."

"For this group that lacks midwives, drugs, and forceps, buttocks mean reproduction. But because people have broken away from part of their animal nature, they use beauty to replace violent competition. Beauty is the expression of human nature. Obviously, if I This ethnic group will definitely be considered an unhealthy and ugly woman. Fortunately, Chen Jian is not from this ethnic group."

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"A strange bird, very big, like a donkey, running fast, but unable to fly. The locals like to eat their eggs, and these birds will leave quickly when they see the locals."

"This kind of bird undoubtedly has the instinct to protect its offspring, but they may have been in contact with these people for a long time, and they already know that if they don't run away, they will be shot and killed by bows and arrows. It is obviously not their instinct to flee when eggs are stolen, but those people Those who didn’t run must have been shot.”

"Is this behavior of escaping something learned like a child learning not to touch flames? Or has it been integrated into their bodies and passed on to the next generation?"

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"A local woman took me to collect it, and I clearly saw a carrot."

"Yes, there is absolutely no mistake. From the leaves, it is obviously a radish. But after pulling it out, it is very disappointing. This radish looks like...a little finger."

"I never thought there would be such a radish in the world, but this is indeed a radish. The woman was very hospitable and handed me a 'radish', and I tasted it after washing it. Indeed, it is a radish, Qian Zhen True carrot."

"It seems that my guess is correct. The radish is not natural or what we think. It is not a matter of course. It is selected by countless human hands."

"For radishes, it should give priority to flowering and seeding, rather than expanding its rhizomes. For radishes, huge rhizomes are a burden, just as the most annoying ground maggots and mole crickets in the farmer's vegetable garden like our radishes very much. "

"The radish will not selflessly prepare food for mole crickets and ground maggots for its own reproduction. Then there is only one possibility, that is, people choose radishes with big roots, and radishes themselves don't like it."

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"In another nearby settlement, the women here have big buttocks. It seems that they are like swollen radishes. The environment and people here need women with big buttocks, so women with big buttocks have more rights to reproduce. From there it grew bigger and bigger.”

"I'm sorry for comparing people with radishes, but presumably the women here won't care, they will think it's a compliment."

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"Goats! Real wild goats!"

"He has a black head, although he looks weird, but his horns are very long, he is very timid, and he runs fast. People don't like this kind of guy, on the contrary, those clumsy, not timid, and slow-running ones in the flock That's what people like."