From Chief to Ball

After speaking, Lin Zigui spat, but said: "Why do you have to spend so much capital? Now Yuanwai Yang's fleet is going to sea again, this time it is said that it is going to Danshui Chicken Coop to trade some rare things with Daxia and others. There is a shortage of manpower like us. You and I will take some silver taels, be sailors on the ship, go there and buy some peppers and so on and sneak back to sell them. In three to five years, we will have capital, or be valued by others. This Eunuch Gao also If you don't accept money from Yuan Yang's family, let's take a chance."

Yan Siqi shook his head and said: "Brother, brother, I don't have such a big heart, I just want to run the tailor shop well. After two years, when I have the capital, I will use some apprentices to buy some facades. It may not be impossible to develop. This Going out to sea is too dangerous, and you are often buried in the sea. It’s not that I’m going to kill you, brother and sister, tell me, what will happen to this family if Zi Gui goes out to sea and never returns?”

After speaking, he patted Lin Zigui and said, "Could it be possible that you also want your younger brother and sister to set up a chastity archway? Let her suffer for the rest of her life? Listen to my brother, don't think about these utilitarian things, just honestly do some things on the pier." Live, people, no matter how you live, it’s a lifetime.”

Yan Siqi knew that his second brother and his younger brother and sister were deeply in love with each other, even though he said this, the two of them talked about everything and were not unhappy.

He also drank a lot of wine, and Lin Zigui also became drunk. When he heard the chastity memorial archway, he couldn't help going mad, and said to his wife with a smile: "If I die, just marry someone, don't be a widow, and make yourself miserable." .”

The woman pinched him fiercely with a smile, and cursed him for being immodest, but she didn't try to prove her chastity.

Speaking of this, Lin Zigui got up and pushed open the window, looking at the houses in the distance, he could vaguely see a memorial archway, and said with a sneer, "there are more and more memorial archways in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in recent years, brother, what do you think?" That's right, why are there so many? One is that they have money to go to sea, and two... Hey, after going to sea, they don't return all year round, so they can eat some wild food outside, and they are afraid that their women will act like Pan Jinlian and Pan Qiaoyun The more prosperous Zhangzhou's sea trade is, the more archways there will be. On the contrary, there are far fewer archways in those cultivated lands. It's really ridiculous. If I were an official, the first thing I would do would be smash these memorial archways.”

Yan Siqi laughed and said: "You are still like this, that's all, let's not talk about this. Besides, you are smart, so it's good to study and get a good reputation. Like you said, if you will become an official in the future, don't you?" Can't you do something?"

"Disaster!"

Lin Zigui shook his head, cursed, and sighed: "Nowadays, most of the officials who study are villains with different hearts. They seek high status when they study, and they seek honor and prestige when they are in an official position. Yang is Taoism, and Yin is wealth. The quilt is elegant, and the behavior is like a dog, what a villain."

"I thought about it, even if I pass the exam, I still work with such a person, how can I be happy?"

"Let's not talk about it now, what's so great about the sages? Those who cultivate, cultivate, and fish are all desirable, but the goodness of thousands of sages and sages is the only one that is unacceptable? Why bother to learn from Confucius and then become the main line? It is clear that everyone learns from the master, talks about morality but has a high-ranking official in his heart, and aspires to be rich, which is really an ugly woman. No matter whether you don’t learn, or don’t learn! I think it’s better to talk about utilitarian things than to read sage books They are like pigs and dogs in the dark."

After speaking, he picked up the wine glass, drank it all in one gulp, and shouted, "Happy! Happy!"

Chapter 71 This fashion is a small person ([-])

Yan Siqi was taken aback, and only felt relieved when the foster brother wanted to learn from Song Yasi's poems and didn't write for a long time.

He heaved a sigh, but he was still yearning to live a good life with a tailor shop. Even if one day he got rich, he would just learn from Guo Jie, Hou Sheng, Zhu Hai and others. Erlang.

He didn't want to go to sea, nor did he want to go to sea, and he still hoped to have a peaceful life in his heart.

Although the tailoring work is tiring, and the villains under the tax inspector often come to collect some fees, but the life is passable.

He hadn't read as much as his brother Jinlan, and what's more, he read some banned books.As the saying goes, the more knowledge you have in the wrong direction, the more reactionary. Nowadays, the things Lin Zigui read are undoubtedly progressive compared with the times, but progress or reactionary needs to be determined by a pre-set position.

After drinking a few more cups, Lin Zigui's mood gradually calmed down, Yan Siqi said again: "Brother, I think we should think about it again. Let's not talk about the turmoil at sea, let's just say that this matter is not allowed by the government."

"Brother, what do you mean by permission from the government? What is not permission? The words of the government cannot be changed? Don't talk about the government, it is the words of the sages, can it be that they cannot be changed?"

"Today's people want to be rich, but they pretend that they don't want it. They really want to rely on it as a ladder to honor themselves, and they also use moral and benevolent things to cover themselves."

"I made it clear that I just want to be rich. I just want to be rich. There is nothing shameful about it. The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the world's hustle and bustle is for profit. What are you afraid of when you say it? You have to cover up some morals Besides, the master is just an ordinary person, and his words are not all the eternal truths, so you can’t take his right and wrong as right and wrong, everyone should be right and wrong.”

Speaking of this, I couldn't help but think of a booklet I got from the pier that I kept privately. I don't know where it came from, but it was extremely enjoyable to read.

Some things are even extremely daring, but no one knows where these pamphlets came from. The businessmen of the Great Xia Kingdom are all gentle, courteous and frugal, and it seems that they have nothing to do with them.

Thinking of some of the contents of the books I had read before, I said loudly: "Everyone should have their own right and wrong and world, this is freedom!"

"I go to sea, one is for undisguised wealth, so that I can live a good life with your siblings. Two, I want to see the overseas world, and see what those places without the words of saints look like! "

Yan Siqi glanced at the woman again, and the woman smiled and said, "Do what he wants to do. I won't persuade him, and uncle doesn't need to persuade him either. Your brother just wanted to persuade you to come together."

Yan Siqi sighed, shook his head and said, "Brother, if I think about it again, I really don't want to part with my tailor shop."

Or to cheer up his righteous brother, he said with a smile: "It is said that no matter how rich or honored you are, don't forget each other! My brother is looking forward to the day when you will prosper, and I will borrow your light at that time!"

The two of them talked about something else, and when they left, Yan Siqi took the two pieces of cloth away, thinking about how much money he had left in his hand, and gave it to his righteous brother tomorrow, if he wanted to go to sea, it would be considered a private purchase, and the capital No less.If the interest on the loan is too expensive, naturally although I don't want to go to sea, my brother can't stop me if I want to go to sea, and I can get some silver taels.

After Yan Siqi left, the woman cleaned up the leftovers by herself, and Lin Zigui recited the books he got a few days ago by candlelight.

Is freedom a good thing?Nature is good, especially for feudal society, this is a poison, a poison that can spread quickly, like a plague.

Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty was somewhat like Europe in the Renaissance era, with carnal desire, human nature, money worship, profit-seeking, extreme freedom... those things that have broken free from the ignorance of the old era are expressed in an extreme form.Rebellion, resistance, freedom, and breaking through the shackles of religious etiquette are emerging with difficulty, but it is difficult to become the mainstream.

Both good and bad are the germs of thought.Wanting only the good and not the bad is just a dream.

When the liberation of the sexes, money worship, rebellion, etc. reach the extreme, it is the time when the tradition returns, and the mutual interweaving is a religious reform, forming a new tradition in which tradition and rebellion complement each other.Spontaneous change is tradition, and tradition is not eternal.

Human rights and freedom are weapons to break the shackles of feudalism. Only after the bourgeoisie seizes power will they revise these definitions, changing from absolute rights and absolute freedom to limited rights and freedom of capital.

But in the past, it was necessary to rely on individual freedom and rights to defeat the old era. People who relied on free thinking spontaneously resisted and eventually formed monstrous flames. After seizing power, it was redefined as a ruling concept rather than a revolutionary concept. From personal rights without any infringement to Because the state can deprive rights at an appropriate time, this means that the concept of bourgeois human rights has matured after seizing power.

These thoughts of Lin Zigui are still very simple, and he has not yet reached the point of thinking so far, thinking about the connection between freedom, people, and the country.

And he thinks a lot, not what those pamphlets spread, but has a foundation before that, and the environment here gives this kind of thought a chance to spread.The person who first said these things died because of "daring to advocate chaos and deceive the world and the people", just like those Protestants or Bruno who were massacred on the other side of the earth, there is no difference.

People die, but their thoughts can't be burned or killed.

However, Lin Zigui who believes in these things is a small person at this time, and his adopted brother Yan Siqi is also a small person at this time, all of this will not cause any waves at this time.

Yan Siqi is really still a very small person at this time, he doesn't even dare to go to sea, he only thinks about running his own tailor shop in Zhangzhou, thinking about giving money to his righteous brother tomorrow, thinking about how to live in the future Avoiding the extortion of those villains, thinking about how many coppers and taels of silver can be left this month...

At this moment, the biggest dream is to be prosperous and rich, and to settle the injustice with a pair of fists, nothing more.

After returning home, I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.He thought, the sea is too dangerous, many people die there every year, and he doesn't know if his righteous brother can return safely...

In fact, he was right in thinking that the sea is indeed dangerous, and it is really dangerous.

For example, at this time, a small sampan was floating on the sea north of the Danshui River in Taiwan, on which lay a man in his 40s, feeling the terror and despair brought by the sea.

Her lips were already dry and cracked, and her whole body was thin. She wanted to swallow her saliva, but found that the saliva had already disappeared.

Throat was as dry as sand, and every breath was excruciating pain.

The blue water on the sea was within his reach, but he knew it was sea water, the more he drank it, the thirstier he became, and the faster he died.

However, when he was in despair, knowing that this was the case, a voice in his mind kept telling him: "Drink, drink, maybe it can really quench your thirst... Water! Water, that's water..."

Another voice kept reminding him: "Don't drink, have you forgotten how ugly it is for those who can't help but drink sea water? Hold on! You didn't die in the massacre in Luzon, on the boat Being a slave is still alive... Mazu, Buddha, the Jade Emperor, the Virgin Mary, God, and ancestors are all blessing you, you can live..."

The two voices kept interlacing like this, he bit his arm hard, closed his eyes not to look at the water that was just around the corner, and lay flat on the narrow sampan.

Also on board were a few pieces of hard bread, a piece of Spanish jerky, and two stolen gold bars that I carried with me.

Touching the two forbidden gold bars that were not stamped with the seal of the Spanish royal family with his hands, he thought that as long as he survived, relying on his own body, he could always make a comeback.In less than ten years, he is still a party character.

This is a dream, relying on two gold bars is a future dream, obviously this person is also a small person at this time.A small person who only wants to drink water to survive, and whose biggest dream is to make a comeback with these two stolen gold bars and have a boat of his own...

This man is called Li Dan, who was considered a figure in Manila a few years ago. He became the leader of the Chinese community, the so-called maintenance chairman.

He was lucky enough to survive the Manila massacre a few years ago.Because he is a Catholic, in the eyes of the Spaniards he is considered half of himself, and he is not guilty of death.

However, all the properties he had operated for many years were confiscated, and he was fined to do hard labor on a ship.

Compared with the more than 2 people who were killed, Li Dan felt that he was lucky, at least he did not become a member of the pile of bones.