From Chief to Ball

"There are more than 40 ships from Zhangzhou to Luzon every year, bringing back more than 4 military silver taels, and supporting more people. This is a good thing."

"Although the massacre of my people in Luzon happened before, on the one hand, those people took the blame for themselves, and on the other hand, the chief of Luzon also returned the money and things and knew the terrible power of Tianwei. Therefore, we cannot treat Luzon people and Japanese pirates. Treat them as equals."

"In addition to Luzon, there is now another Xia Kingdom in the far west. They showed their benevolence and righteousness during the disaster in Quanzhou. They really admire Chinese culture and asked to send some people who are proficient in the words of saints." The students went to the state of Xia to educate them, which is even more different from Lu Song and Japanese pirates."

"Now they ask for tribute, and they also ask to stop in Danshui, abide by the laws of Daming, and dare not approach the coast of Daming, so I allow them to stay there temporarily, and they also express that they will not do anything illegal."

"They are willing to provide 3000 taels of silver every year as the fee for renting and docking, and hope that His Majesty can send officials to Danshui to build a Confucian temple and educate the students."

"If we can trade with them, on the one hand, they will help us fight against Japanese pirates in Fujian. After all, they don't want Japanese pirates to rob their ships."

"On the other hand, their country is [-] miles away from here, and the number of people transported here is only a few hundred, so there is no danger. This is very different from the Japanese pirates."

"One more thing, their cannons and firearms are sharp, which we can buy to defend and deter the barbarians."

"In addition to these, there is one more thing that I must tell His Majesty."

"This country is in the west of Japan, closer to Japan, and they are rich in saltpeter, steel, guns, medicines and other things that Japanese pirates need. These things are prohibited from being sold to Japanese pirates."

"If you refuse to trade with them, it will not affect their direct trade with Japanese pirates across the sea. This is what I am most afraid of. In this way, I am afraid that the Guanbai incident will repeat itself, and the Korean chaos will reappear."

"We refuse to trade with them. I am afraid that they will become resentful and help the Japanese pirates. Even if they are not on our coast, they can transport the goods that the Japanese pirates need from their own country. This is extremely bad."

"If the Ministry of Rites can move them with emotion, understand them with reason, and educate them so that they will not trade with Japan, it will be a credit to the country and the people."

... The first memorial was only about disaster relief, and the impact was not too great, but it was still a help to Chen Jian.

The second article, about whether to ban the sea and trade with the Xia Kingdom, is a major matter—it is a real diplomatic matter that officials of the Ministry of Rites have never touched, not a tribute matter.

They have to face diplomatic issues for the first time, and they are very serious diplomatic issues. They even have to get involved in the international system exchanges in the Pacific region... If they want to achieve their goals, or realize the seriousness of the problem , you have to engage in diplomacy and trade agreements and the like.

In fact, it is useless. Domestic capital prefers Japanese gold and silver, and Daming's developed handicraft industry and self-sufficient economy are really places that capital is not interested in.Yes, the more developed and not interested.

It seems impossible to think that education and the like can prevent capital from pursuing profit, otherwise it would be possible to rewrite the history of the world.

But if this step can be taken here, whether it is successful or not, it will be regarded as a huge step that can be recorded in history.

Chapter 70 This fashion is a small person ([-])

The envoys' entry into Beijing, disasters everywhere, and the chaos caused by the two memorials are numerous and disturbing. I don't know when they will be able to reach a result.

Big people have things that big people want to think about, and little people have lives that little people want to live.

It is precisely in the middle of the capital, where the temple is high, and the big men point out the country.Outside the mountains of Fujian, far away from the rivers and lakes, the little people strive for self-improvement.

But there is a small tailor shop in Yuegang, Zhangzhou, Fujian.

The owner's surname is Yan, his name is Siqi, and his style name is Zhenquan.

Now he is nineteen years old, but he is good at tailoring, and is well-known in Yuegang.His parents and adults named him Siqi, which naturally means Siqi when he sees the virtuous.

It's just that Yan Siqi is not good at reading sage books, so he has to learn guns and sticks, and he has good skills.On weekdays, he is good at fighting against injustices, and his tailoring skills are excellent. He is also a figure in the market.

He has only opened this tailor shop for a year or two, but there is one thing, he never secretly cuts other people's cloth, and returns all the remaining needles and thread to others, which is extremely rare.

There is a saying that a good tailor will steal two feet of cloth for every ten feet of cloth. It is said in "The Legend of Awakening Marriage" that even the magistrate of the county who asks a tailor to make an official robe has to watch with his own eyes.

This is the only difference. In the past two or three years, Yan Siqi's tailor shop has gradually expanded.

Although he usually doesn't read the words of Confucius and Mencius, he likes the assassins of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Yan Siqi has a friend who is about the same age.This man's surname is Lin, his style name is Zigui, and he was once a student of Confucianism, but he didn't know what he read, after all, he didn't think about making progress, and he was prone to making extreme remarks all day long.He didn't care what the people of Yuegang called it madness.

The acquaintance of these two people is quite like a chivalrous man in the Spring and Autumn Period. Two years ago, Eunuch Gao's subordinates did many illegal things in Yuegang and took them by force.Originally, these people were not from good families, they were all rascals from Zhangzhou Haicheng, but the eunuchs trembled when they joined the service.

Lin Zigui had just finished reading "Water Margin" at that time, and he was still young, and he couldn't swallow the dryness in his heart. When he faced the evil deeds, he stood up. Although he was a scholar, he had no courage to break the face. It is easy to be beaten.

It happened that Yan Siqi passed by and came to the rescue. The two were friends in need, and they were both young. They had just finished reading "Three Kingdoms", so they would call each other brothers and form a friendship with Jinlan.

On this day, the Golden Crow had turned away, and Yan Siqi was about to close the door, when Lin Zigui carried two catties of pigs to unload and shouted from a distance: "Brother, it's a good day today, go to my house for a few drinks, there is something good for you look."

Yan Siqi knew that this Jinlan brother was doing some calculations at the pier, and he had indeed seen a lot of good things on weekdays, and he happened to be addicted to alcohol, so he casually said with a smile: "Second brother, you saw a lot of strange things at the pier , but in the end it was all a joke. Last time you insisted that the Fulang machine man brought the Kunlun slave, I really thought it was a Mole-like character, and I gave up my business for a long time to accompany you to see it. Black is black, but there is no Moller's method of flying over the wall."

There are often Portuguese people in Yuegang, and there are also black slaves. At first, Yan Siqi was also regarded as Mole in the legend of Kunlun slaves. After seeing it, he was very disappointed, and this became a common joke between the two.

Lin Zigui smiled and said, "This time I'm not looking at Kunlun slaves. I got two bolts of good cloth at the pier. I invite you to have a look."

"What's so strange about the cloth? It's nothing better than Indian cloth. It's not like I haven't seen it before."

"Brother, this time is really different. This cloth is said to come from the Great Xia Kingdom in the far west. It is more than two feet wide and the cotton thread is tough. What's more, the pigment is not indigo, which is very strange. I know that my brother runs a tailor shop. Yes, so I bought two specially."

When Yan Siqi heard this, he also became interested, knowing that his righteous brother was not lying about this matter, he said in surprise: "A cloth that is more than two feet wide? It's not impossible, as long as two people throw a shuttle."

"I'm afraid not. This cloth was transported from thousands of miles away, and the price is about the same as that of homemade cloth. I heard that it is woven by a new loom, and only one person is enough. Today I have opened my eyes. Have you ever seen the glass? Hey, when I saw it today, I realized that I had to throw it away because the glass in Great Xia Kingdom is different."

While talking, he put the unwrapped goods wrapped in pu leaves in his hand aside, reached out to help Yan Siqi close the door, inspected it, and said hello to the neighbors, and the two went to buy a pot of wine again, Then he returned to Lin Zigui's home.

When I got home, I asked my wife to cook the goods first, then hurried back to the room and took out two bolts of Prussian blue-dyed broad plain cloth that I got today, and showed it to Yan Siqi.

Yan Siqi was also a tailor for many years. He stretched out his hand and praised: "Good cloth. The yarn is thin, dense, and extremely soft. It is indeed a good thing. What's more rare is that it is twice as wide as ordinary cloth, and it is also convenient to cut. It saves a lot of work where sewing was originally required, what used to take two days now only takes one and a half days."

"That's right, although I don't know the techniques of tailoring, I have seen a lot..."

Lin Zigui told some news about today, which made Yan Siqi startled.

After a long while, the food was ready and the wine was hot, so Lin Zigui asked his wife to sit down together.

Yan Siqi is also used to eating at the same table with women, knowing that his brother-in-law has read some sage books for a few years and then read some forbidden books, his thinking is quite different from others.

Just like the matter of male superiority and female inferiority, there are a lot of complaints, and I often say to people, "You can't stop taking women's opinions as short-term. Therefore, it is okay to say that there are men and women in people. Is it okay to see that there are men and women? It is okay to say that there are long and short. How can it be said that a man’s vision is as long as possible and a woman’s vision is as short as possible? If a woman’s body is her own and a man’s vision is her own, if she is happy to hear the truth but knows the insufficiency of common sayings, and if she is happy to learn from the world but knows the lack of love in the floating world, then I'm afraid that the men of the world will look at it, and they will be ashamed and sweat, and dare not speak out."... and other stupid words.

It is also said that women can only live in the boudoir, and men can be farmers, merchants, and officials. The so-called "husband and wife do not go out of the realm, while men shoot their arrows in all directions. It goes without saying that there are advantages and disadvantages"...

The so-called advanced thinking always coincides with each other. In the same way, Byron, the poet of the land of England, once said that it is just that men can aim everywhere, and women can only love and then love and then get hurt.

These words are often preached in the market, which attracts applause from women, and many women call him Xiao Langjun, which is also reassuring.It's just that the man can't help resenting him, and only calls him a madman.

This is also the source of his acquaintance with his own woman, and it was not the matchmaker's words that his parents ordered him, which also caused an uproar at the time.It's just that he is a small person, but he has always been crazy, and he has a good father at home, so he hasn't been mad at him, so he didn't make any big troubles.

Just gave him some silver taels, drove him out of the house, and didn't allow women to enter the house.But the two didn't care. After they got married, they raised eyebrows and liked the story of Zhuo Wenjun and Sima Xiangru the most, but since they were crazy students, they would inevitably scold Sima Xiangru.

At this time, the wine and food were served, and the woman sat aside generously, poured wine and ate, and watched her husband say something that others thought he was a jerk but she liked with a smile.

Lin Zigui and Yan Siqi drank a few glasses of wine, and said with a hot head, "Brother, are we going to live like this for the rest of our lives? Let me tell you, we might as well do something big. Haven't you seen Yang Yuanwai's house? There are so many boats going to sea every year. When you come back, you can sell it for tens of thousands of taels of silver."

"Now you have seen it too. Take the cloth of the Great Xia Kingdom and these exquisite gadgets as an example. If they can be shipped back for sale, wouldn't it be a good deal?"

Yan Siqi drank a cup and sighed: "How can we have such capital? My tailor shop has saved only a few taels of silver in a year. Before, because of some things, I hated Eunuch Gao's evil servant He Hai, a dog who takes power... ..."