From Chief to Ball

I remember that people from both sides began to curse at each other, and it was hard to suppress those voices, Chen Jian cursed in his heart.

At the beginning, Hu Lin said that he was cold-blooded and ruthless, but now he is about to confirm his reputation.If there is an internal party organization, there is no need for so many fallacies, but in the face of this group of domestic accompanying personnel whose interests are paramount, they must speak so bloodily.They have done nothing wrong, and they have done nothing wrong. It is just a manifestation of ideological disputes, which will become more intense in China in the future.

After doing this, Chen Jian increasingly missed the places where grassroots organizations were basically established in Minjun, Nan'an, and Dahuangcheng, and many things were much easier to do.But here, leaving the organization is really nothing, nothing can be done, even the reasoning has to be covered up in a way that others can accept, and there are so many anti-human beings who are treated as normal topic.

However, the darkest days are yet to come.

Chapter 57 Betrayal

Even talking to Jiang Zhili up to now, those people are still confident, disaster relief is okay, but it is for the purpose of making profits in the future.But when it comes to the emperor, the country, deterrence, and enlightenment, those who oppose it immediately have a huge backlash.

According to some of the things some radicals in the fleet heard in Ayutthaya, I thought it would be hard for you to slander Myanmar, and we are [-] miles away, and you can’t smack us, so why should you 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 sail across the Pacific Ocean from Mincheng, can you control it?

Chen Jian was also helpless, thinking that if he continued like this, he would really betray his relatives.

If Daming was a silver-producing country and a perfect place to dump goods, this group of people would definitely kneel down and say anything nasty.However, since it is not, and in some people's opinion, it is only to lure the labor force here to cultivate in order to collect land rent and exploit labor to make money, the waist is naturally much stronger.

Seeing that the conversation could no longer continue, Chen Jian coughed heavily, and those who were next to him were silent.

Jiang Zhili had an expression of surprise on his face, but he knew in his heart that what these people said was true, and if that happened, it might cause chaos in the future.

If it is really urgent, and this group of people is forced to go back and support the Japanese chief, it may lead to a catastrophe.

Apart from refusing to trade, it seems that there is really no way to deal with this group of people.But severing the trade was like deceiving the bell. Jiang Zhili didn't read the Great Kyushu Hai Guozhi sent by Chen Jian, just out of national dignity, but his heart was still trembling with the horror of going to a country thousands of miles away.

This thing really exists, it doesn't mean that I close my eyes and cover my ears and say that I can't see it, so it doesn't exist.At least no one in the Fujian Navy can cross thousands of miles, but this group of people can run here from tens of thousands of miles away.

There was a moment of silence, but fortunately, Chen Jian quickly said: "Mr. Jiang, there is no need to delay the disaster relief. For small people and poor households, a catastrophe is enough to destroy their families and make a living."

"There is a way, there are those who protect the country, and there are those who protect the world. Those who protect the country are those who eat the king's salary and are loyal to the king. Those who eat meat seek benefits from those who eat meat. Those who protect the world benefit from agriculture, industry and commerce, and even despise common people. If it is not the case After the catastrophe, people will eat each other, isn't it a beast? The difference, Mr. Jiang must have read the words of the sages, and he still understands it. He is the magistrate, and he has always known the hardships of the bottom. I am not an alarmist, right? Even if the master is resurrected, is it true? Will people throw themselves into the sea, cannibalize people, and eat their flesh with their legs as wages?"

"Mr. Jiang, if you think Master Fusheng will choose this way, 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 preparation."

Chen Jian made a gesture to get up, Jiang Zhili sighed, finally nodded and stopped talking about those emotional disputes, and started talking with Chen Jian about the future.

"Although you and I are not from the same country, we are all human beings. Some things are the same for human beings. The sun rises and sets in the east and sets in the west here, and it also rises and sets in the east and west in our place. People have parents, wives and children, and they are not grass and trees. Who can 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. If Mr. Jiang allows, these people can go ashore together to assist Mr. Jiang in disaster relief."

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

If he was a Catholic, Jiang Zhili might still believe it. It sounds like their teachings still encourage people to be kind.The problem is that these people neither respect saints nor believe in religion, so it is obvious what purpose these people have.

It's just that Chen Jian said that he can't refuse. After all, he is still a feudal bureaucrat who can be regarded as honest and caring for the people. It's not easy to see troubles in Quanzhou.

Chen Jian said again: "At this time, the price of rice must have risen. Even if the merchants are restrained to set the price at this time, the merchants will only choose to close their doors and not sell. If someone with intentions instigates it and smashes the doors and windows to eat the rich, I am afraid that there will be big troubles. It is close to the sea, so it is really impossible to stay far away from overseas, fearing that it will become a riot of Japanese pirates."

"Furthermore, does Mr. Jiang know how to prepare for the epidemic after the catastrophe? Presumably he doesn't understand. A man of witch doctor and musician, a gentleman is contemptible. Mr. Jiang also knows what his subordinates want to come. If not, we Send someone to assist Mr. Jiang to show your sincerity. Mr. Jiang only needs to write a letter and report what we have done to the governor, to prove that we are not lawless people like the Japanese pirate Hongyi, but also have a heart of benevolence and righteousness and moral courtesy."

Jiang Zhili didn't refute this point, he really didn't understand much, on the contrary, he had some attainments in ancient books of gold and stone.

Hearing what Chen Jian said so straightforwardly, he felt a little relieved.He doesn't believe in benevolence, righteousness and morality, but when it comes to making him edit a book, it is even more credible, and he also feels that he has something to rely on to finally win the game.

In fact, his letter is not very important. Chen Jian just took the opportunity to let people around Quanzhou know about his group. In the future, it will be more convenient for a large number of immigrants to smuggle to the island.

If it weren't for the fact that this was the first round-the-world voyage and it hadn't stood still, Chen Jian's choice at this time must have been to bring people to land in batches to take away the poor after the disaster.

As long as there is an official landing, he has a way to control the situation and expand its influence.

After discussing for a long time, an agreement was finally reached.Chen Jian's fleet temporarily docked on a small island outside Quanzhou to shelter from the wind. In addition, rice was also taxed at one cent per stone to stabilize prices.

For the next half month, Chen Jian led people to keep busy in the disaster area, selling rice, stabilizing the price of rice, burning dead people, and disinfecting with lime. At the same time, he sent people to distribute sweet potatoes and wrote a planting instruction manual for people to go deep into the nearby coastal villages for promotion. , in order to relieve the tragedy of the rice harvest after the earthquake and strong wind.

Within half a month, Jiang Zhili was deeply impressed by those members of the party organization in the fleet, and his impression of Chen Jian was also much better.Chen Jian deliberately made friends again, thinking that in the future, when these people were promoted to Guangdong deputy envoys and became Shandong right political leaders and governed Laizhou and Dengzhou, they would prepare for it.

These two places are extremely important places, Guangdong needless to say, and the north of Layden is the Liaodong Peninsula, Jiang Zhili is a perfect candidate to make friends with if he wants to extend his tentacles there in the future.

At this time, the Jesuits have also sent people to China to preach and infiltrate in various ways, and Chen Jian is also fighting for time with the other party.

The Society of Jesus is a paramilitary organization with a very strict internal organization and firm beliefs. Those missionaries who came to China can be regarded as college students at this time.Astronomy, geography, and medical mathematics are all at the top level in the world at this time, but it is still difficult to gain a foothold due to a Catholic issue.

Since science is common to all human beings, the people brought by Chen Jian are not bad, and some people in the party are better organized than the Jesuit priests. The speculators fought several price wars, and the means were clear, and the price of rice in Quanzhou began to fall within a few days.

Under the instigation of Chen Jian and others, the helpless victims began to rush to plant sweet potatoes as food when the crops were in short supply next spring. They also opened a porridge factory in the name of the state capital to stabilize people's hearts.

In the past half a month, the number of people able to land has gradually increased. Lan Qi is busy organizing some epidemic prevention work, and is also secretly observing everything here.

Unlike Chen Jian, Chen Jian knew everything here, but Lan Qi was full of curiosity about many things.

Chen Jian is concerned about the enclosure of land, enclosure of the sea, taxation, refuge, and taxation. He calculates the yield per mu here and the annual tax to be paid. Avoid patrolling smuggler escape locations.

Lan Qi, out of her identity as a woman, was particularly interested in women with bound feet and the collapsed chastity archway.

After asking several times, I couldn't help being secretly surprised.

At noon that day, she and Chen Jian happened to be near a chaste archway, and couldn't help pointing at the archway and said, "Isn't this eating people?"

Chen Jian spread his hands and said, "Ethics are different, and each has its own habits."

Lan Qi shook her head and said: "I'm not talking about morality, I'm talking about benefits. From a moral point of view, the original intention of this kind of encouragement may be good. However, setting up a memorial archway and exempting the servants of the family is not to force 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 childhood and spends some money to buy a woman to marry, the family will make money when the man dies. Do you think Ah, how much does it cost to buy a woman? And how much can the whole family earn tax-free?"

Chen Jian quickly said: "No, no, usually the memorial archway is erected only after the death of a woman."

"That's right, so if a woman is alive, she may not be able to keep it. I must find a way to kill her to die for love. Otherwise, I would not say that this is cannibalism. Especially the family here, if the woman's If the man dies and there is another child, then the land allocated to the child will be gone as long as the child dies, right?"

Chen Jian nodded, and Lan Qi said again: "So, from the perspective of benefit analysis, the best choice is to kill the young child first, and then kill the woman after the child is dead. Just throw it into the well and say He died for love, no one knows. In this way, the property can be recovered, and the living family can also be exempted from taxes..."

Chen Jian hurriedly said: "Actually, we also have a lot of oppressors and cannibals, such as those workshop workers who work more than ten hours a day, those miners who are bored in the mine, and those who dig riverbanks to sell food... "

Lan Qi looked at Chen Jian suspiciously, and wondered: "What's wrong with you? It's like someone stepped on your tail? Yes, there are dark places everywhere, don't we just want to break these darkness? I said here It doesn’t mean that we don’t have it, we eat people everywhere, it’s just fried, steamed, roasted and stewed in different ways. Why are you acting weird recently?”

Chen Jian wiped his sweat in embarrassment, shook his head and said, "It's nothing...it's nothing. You can continue talking."

Lan Qi shrugged and said: "Forget it. I won't talk about it. If you are willing to listen, I'd better talk about our darkness, so as not to step on your tail again."

He said something angry, and looked at Chen Jian with his hair lowered in a daze. After landing, Chen Jian often did this, hey, shook his head and left.

Chen Jian stepped on the collapsed archway and slapped himself hard.Xin said that if sensibility and rationality are mixed together like this and the schizophrenia is schizophrenic, I am afraid that everyone will betray their relatives, and then nothing can be done.

Chapter 58 translation

In addition to slapping himself two big mouths, he also slapped him a few times after some things, Chen Jian's mind became much clearer.

These days in Quanzhou, Chen Jian has been looking for opportunities to show off the muskets he brought, but there are not even many interested officials, but none at all.

Think about it too, the cutting-edge level of firearms in the Ming Dynasty is actually not bad.There are not only imitation versions of Spanish-style muskets, but also Tufik muskets of the Sudanese pro-army named Lumi. However, Zhao Shizhen offended the Ministry of War and Industry of the Ministry of Households for the imitation of Tufik. After accumulating too many benefits, he had no choice but to let it go in the end. In the final demon book case, Zhao Shizhen was forced to die of schizophrenia by excuses.

However, although the matter of muskets was not on his mind, there was some progress in other matters.Such as distributing grain and rice, controlling prices, etc., and this is an important place to fight against the Japanese, and the construction of the collapsed city wall is also a top priority. The people who are proficient in engineering and accounting have finally come in handy.

After several earthquakes, the brick and wood structures in the counties of Quanzhou were basically destroyed, but it also brought about the prosperity of stone culture.The original stonemasons, together with those brought by Chen Jian, can be regarded as driving a cultural exchange.