From Chief to Ball

At the same time, Wangbei City, which estimated that the time would be about the same, also started military mobilization.

A military operation to safeguard the "human right to life" was thus launched.

People from the seven villages were responsible for leading the way and transporting food. Wangbei City's regular army armed with guns, explosives and artillery began to attack the joint village.

Shout loudly before the attack that they hand over the murderer, judge him on the spot, and send doctors to treat the disease in the village.

Adhering to the belief of not firing the first shot, after the village community shot the bow and arrow, the loaded artillery blasted through the fence of the village community...

After several small villages were captured, instead of massacres, these people were appeased and funerals were held for those killed.

Before the last big village club, as soon as the shouting after the cannon was set up, the elders of the village community tied up a few young people who had performed the drafting ceremony before and sent them to the army, expressing their agreement to the previous terms.

A few young people who participated in drafting, ignorant, and just doing things according to tribal habits were sent to Wangbei City, and the elders, goddesses, and some people from the seven villages and the big village were also invited to participate.

A publicity about the right to life and a murder trial lasted for three days.

It not only popularizes the law, but also popularizes the reasons for the law, and at the same time plays a deterrent role.

Three days later, the young people who participated in the headhunting were sentenced to be executed by shooting. The crowd cheered, and the legal concept based on human rights began to take root in the hearts of the people. This three-day trial was the perfect publicity.

People died, the original world view collapsed, doubts about ancestor spirits and headhunting customs arose, and even those who thought that those who were killed in previous military operations should be held responsible by the village elders rather than Wang Beicheng army Start to appear.

But that's not all, the pens seized the opportunity to carry out a grand publicity.

The person who was headhunted and died before was promoted as a role model.

Originally, he just wanted to report the news, but in the publicity, he became a hero who sacrificed his life for righteousness, a warrior who struggled between trust in science and respect for aborigines.

The simple story has been concocted by propaganda and agitation experts, and the taste has completely changed. The story has become like this:

That person believes in science, in civilization, and in new planting methods and new ways of life that can make life better for the people in the village.In order to allow everyone to enjoy the benefits of the progress of civilization and science, he willingly came to the village to teach the people here to plant, cultivate and treat some simple diseases with herbs.

When the plague broke out, he tried his best to save people, and at the same time, he also discouraged the act of making grass, which was barbaric and meaningless to the plague.However, although the elders of the village community respected him, they did not listen to him, but chose to continue the ceremony of making grass.

That person knows that this kind of ceremony is meaningless, but he knows that if there is no grass-making ceremony, the people of the village will not know that the grass-making is meaningless. This is a paradox that cannot be avoided.

After hesitating all night, that person decided to use his own death to bring this ethnic group's recognition of civilization and bring this village to give up such a barbaric and meaningless custom of grass production-his purpose of doing so was simply because The other party is also a human being, just like him, a human being from heaven and earth.

So he asked a member of the village community he had saved to bring a letter to Wangbeicheng, hoping that Wangbeicheng would not punish them because of the barbarism and ignorance of the village community, and needed more time to educate them.

Early the next morning, with a belief in leading "civilization" and sacrificing his life for the righteousness in his heart, he found the place where the "Chucao" team was ambush, and took the initiative to let these people shoot him dead, smiling before he died.

Practice has proved that it is meaningless to produce grass, and the plague still brings a large number of deaths.

On the other side of the contrast, relying on doctors and science to guide the prevention of diseases, there are not many deaths.

Similarly, the people in Wangbei City also gave an explanation for the letter: the dignity of the law cannot be desecrated, and even moral behavior must be punished by the law. The law is not morality. One person's request cannot affect the law, and the rule of law should not be ruled by man. …So after that person died, the Wangbei City government demanded that the murderer be handed over, but after handing over the murderer, they did not retaliate against the village community. Instead, they sent a nursing team to help the people in the village rebuild...

So, what was supposed to be a very simple matter, after propaganda, became a debate about human nature, law, sacrifice, civilization, barbarism, conflict, internationalism, compassion, kindness, people, hatred, love, disease prevention propaganda, etc. Promotional materials.

It was compiled into aboriginal poetry and sung everywhere.

It was compiled into a drama and staged in a very formal form, which aroused the emotion and thinking of many people.The smile of devotion and sacrifice left when seeing the traces of the grass team ambush and the monologue before death in the drama have become one of the classic fragments in the history of drama.

It was compiled into a teaching material and became the content of the Chinese textbook of Kaimeng Education.

It was compiled into a commemorative festival and became a grand gathering for the aboriginal village community to participate in.

Thinking about the law: Is it right or wrong for that person to ask Wangbei City not to be punished?Will more crimes be incurred if not punished?

Thinking about values: Is there a universally applicable value?Why does the same thing have different meanings, even good and evil, in different civilizations?How to choose in the face of this conflict?

This propaganda, together with the previous issue of land ownership, laid the foundation for future rule here.

It’s not about seizing the land of your aborigines. It’s about natural resources like land that are shared by all human beings. Land is meaningless without labor.We immigrated here to work, we protect the fruits of labor, we respect the income of labor, but we don't recognize the private ownership of natural resources, so we don't take your land, because it's not yours at all - land and natural resources Private ownership does not make sense for this reason.

It is not that we destroyed your culture, it is that your culture is barbaric and backward, we are only here to help you sweep away superstitious ghosts and monsters, spread the dawn of science and civilization, and guide you to live a new life, we respect your ethnic traditions and habits , but this custom and tradition cannot be conditional on harming the rights of others-it does not force tribute and taxation, and adopts a policy of equality under the law that treats everyone equally.

It looks the same as Colonial, but it's not at all.

If these two changes, it is colonization.

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The relationship, enlightenment, and assimilation with the aborigines is a slow process, just like the impact of joint-stock companies on those maritime merchants, it cannot be accomplished overnight.

The conflict or trade between Wangbei City and the village community was carried out in accordance with the results of previous discussions and the long-term tone.Those things happened before or after Chen Jian went to Fujian, and similar things will be solved in this similar way in the future.

After the business of the trading company was roughly established, Chen Jian went to Fuzhou to visit the governor Chen Zizhen, and at the same time bribed the governor and the chief envoy to buy a large amount of cattle with silver.The source of silver is that the sugar cane grown on the island is squeezed to pay wages with banknotes, and then transported to other places for trade.

Chen Jian sent Chen Zizhen a strategic gift, which also convinced Chen Zizhen that the imperial court could put an end to the pirates and Japanese pirates without spending a single soldier or silver or copper. Chen Jian was also eager to accept it.

At the beginning of his tenure, the Ministry of War gave Chen Zizhen the guideline to keep the Japanese pirates away from the coastline, and recognized the gap between the Ming army and the Japanese pirates in the use of matchlock guns, and believed that cannons and huge ships were the empire's advantage.This is commendable, but it is too difficult to implement.The Japanese pirates were inextricably linked with the merchants on the shore. Outside some city walls, there were houses deliberately built by merchants. When the Japanese pirates attacked, they could easily enter the houses.

With the establishment of the trading company, some maritime merchants joined the company, and those Japanese pirates became the sworn enemies of these people, disintegrating and disintegrating some merchants.

As long as the Japanese pirates don't make trouble, Chen Jian shouldn't go too far, and the governor will turn a blind eye. If he really wants to provoke chaos in the coastal areas, he, the governor, will have to take the blame.He tentatively asked Chen Jian, who was about to go to Shu and asked to build a Confucian temple in Taiwan. Chen Jian expressed his support, and as a foreigner, he recited a few passages of Analects on the spot to show his respect for Confucius.Chen Zizhen corrected his misreading of the sentence by the way: the people can make them know but not make them know.

Chen Jian accepted it humbly, and then proposed that a school and hospital could be built in the mountainous area of ​​northern Fujian, and he would pay for it.It is mainly to teach Kaimeng children literacy, and some children can also teach children how to read sentences, imitating the form of Japanese Terakoya, and only let those children come to school with sweet potatoes, rice or something within their ability.

Chen Zizhen immediately agreed, wrote a letter and gave it to Chen Jian. Chen Jian took a photo with him and asked someone to keep the letter in case he would extend his hands and feet to the impoverished mountainous area in northern Fujian and Pan Luotie in a few days. near the mine.

After some exchanges, bribes and banquets, Chen Jian took some company shareholders to Wangbei City by boat to increase their confidence and reassure them.

This route has been taken a lot, and there is no problem along the way.Before landing, some shareholders who followed Chen Jian to Wangbei City saw a lot of newly built fishing boats fishing along the coast, and there were large salt fields and windmills in the distance.

Sun-drying salt method has risen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, but because of the system of salt households and artisans, it is difficult to promote because it is difficult to manage.

The method of raising brine with a windmill was the inspiration of Chen Jian's idea of ​​building a vertical-axis windmill in his previous life. Now the craftsmen sent here have already matured their methods and inherited them. It is not a problem to build several saltworks.

Several small shareholders looked at the Yantian in the distance, and said in amazement: "I thought Mr. Chen was just a merchant, but I didn't expect to know about these herdsmen and craftsmen? We also passed here a few years ago. It was desolate, only some Cannibals, I don’t want to have such a scene in a few years.”

Chen Jian laughed and said: "If one day it is attacked by tens of thousands of bandits, this Wangbei City is a place to live and live, so it must be built well. It's hard to see from here. There are not only salt fields on it, but also rice fields, sweet potato fields, and sugarcane farms... ..."

As soon as these words were said, those small shareholders were overjoyed.Tens of thousands of thieves or something, it is impossible to think about it. It would be strange if the company could develop tens of thousands of thieves while suppressing them.The meaning of Chen Jian's words is clearly that one day after being blackmailed by the emperor, eunuchs, and officials or committing a crime, he will be safe if he runs to the island.

Chen Jian seemed to say something unintentionally. It seemed that he said it unintentionally, but the listener obviously meant it.

"By the way, everyone, after the company's profits and dividends, what do you want to invest your money in?"

A group of people talked in a hurry.

Some people said that if they want to continue to invest in equity, they can do what Chen Jian said, like the Sanbaogong who went to Nanyang, and even sell porcelain and tea to Europe.

There are also those who want to retire after success, go back to their hometown and buy some land, become a rich man, and let their children and grandchildren read the books of sages and sages to seek fame in the imperial examination.

Chen Jian said, "Why do you need to go back to your hometown to buy land? Not to mention this island, there is still a lot of free land elsewhere. You only need to spend some money to hire people to cultivate it, and the money to buy a thousand acres of land in your hometown is enough to reclaim ten thousand acres of land." Acres of new land. Besides, even if you don’t buy the land, put the money directly into the company or deposit it in the bank, no one can take the money away. Not to mention here, as long as you have a bank deposit in your hand, in Europe, in In our place, as long as there is our chamber of commerce, it can be used. The world is so big, and everywhere is different, but gold and silver are gold and silver everywhere."