1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 68

Although there are not many Japanese ronin among the pirate captives, there are more than a dozen people. Ren Liang will notice the short Takahashi Nan from these people, not because of anything else, but because this guy is famous and has Not an ordinary ronin and Japanese pirate.

When Ren Liang was interrogating Gao Qiaonan, when he heard this little devil give his name seriously, Ren Liang realized that this guy was not an ordinary ronin.Ren Liang was considered a light animation house before crossing, so he still has some superficial understanding of Japanese folk customs. As far as he knows, in this era, if it is not aristocrats and formal samurai, ordinary people will have no surnames. .

It is a rare opportunity to meet a real Japanese samurai in this era. Under Ren Liang's interested interrogation, the prisoner Takahashi Minami stammered and explained his origin in his not fluent Chinese.

Takahashi Minami claimed that he was from the Setsu country. He was originally a samurai belonging to the Naito family, a local high-ranking official. He was sentenced to exile for offending the family owner after drinking. Trapped to the coast of Guangdong, joined the group of pirates who attacked last time.Unexpectedly, the first time I followed these pirates to the south to loot, I bumped into the iron plate of Chuanzhong.

If it weren't for Ren Liang's previous knowledge of Japanese history through anime, it would be difficult to know that the somewhat indecently named Settsu Country is actually the Osaka area of ​​later generations.The famous two battles of Osaka in which Tokugawa Ieyasu wiped out Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Japanese history took place more than ten years ago.However, Takahashi Minami claimed that he was only 23 years old. Obviously, he failed to catch up with the two battles that changed Japanese history.Later, Ren Liang also consulted relevant Japanese materials in the large database, and found that after Settsu Kingdom became a territory directly under the shogunate in 1619, the local governor appointed by the shogunate was Naito, and it was very likely that he was the Patriarch mentioned by Takahashi Minami. It also confirmed that he did not make up his origin.

Of course, if Takahashi Minami only has the identity of a samurai, then at most it can satisfy Ren Liang's curiosity as an anime nerd, and he won't have any special treatment for it.What really attracted Ren Liang's attention to him was the so-called "samurai style" that Takahashi Minami upheld on weekdays, always maintaining a superior attitude when he was with other ronin.And these ronin are obviously poisoned by Japan's domestic hierarchy, and they still have a certain respect for this poor samurai.

And this kind of arrogance is only relative. Gao Qiaonan has always been very obedient in front of several crossing guards. In the face of any order, he will immediately accept "hi" and "hi", and there is no other pirate. Laziness and disobedience will appear.Ren Liang tried several times, and even made Gao Qiaonan jump directly into the smelly and dirty river bottom quagmire on the hydropower station site to install the pumping pipe. The captured Gu Weidu sighed that he could not find a chance to shoot.

Ren Liang believes that this is a kind of national inferiority that small Japan has formed since ancient times, that is, worship and absolute obedience to the strong. The brainwashing education these family samurai received from childhood allowed them to be loyal to their loyal objects and uphold the spirit of Bushido. Don't hesitate to give everything, including your life.But it is accompanied by the rejection of human nature. As long as it is an order that they think is correct, they will not hesitate to execute it, even if it is to turn themselves into an inhuman killing machine.Ren Liang believed that when Gao Qiaonan found out that the hard laborers working with him were actually a group of soldiers from the Ming army, the little thought of confrontation he still had against the Chuanzhong should have been completely wiped out.

After Luo Shengdong left the labor camp, Ren Liang has been looking for a replacement, so that the resentment of these hard laborers will not be concentrated too much on the Transcendents - what people hate most is not the enemy, but the betrayal in their own camp By.The attitude of absolute obedience to the superior's orders and the consistent good execution that Gao Qiaonan showed were exactly the qualities that Ren Liang needed for a substitute.

So under Ren Liang's conscious arrangement, Gao Qiaonan began to gradually assume the position of the person in charge of the construction site, and he did his due diligence.Whenever he saw someone being lazy at work, Takahashi Nan scolded "Baga" and went up with his fists and feet, and his shots were much more ruthless than a few Transmigration guards.Of course, it's not that no one resisted him, but as a samurai, this guy has some skills. Ren Liang once saw him knocking over three Southeast Asian monkeys with his bare hands in a one-on-three situation. He himself was unscathed.Ren Liang weighed it, although he was a head taller than the Japanese dwarf, but if he really wanted to let go and fight, he was most likely not the opponent of the little devil.

After Gao Qiaonan gradually became a puppet that Ren Liang consciously supported, some internal conflicts that originally existed in the labor camp were reduced a lot.It's not that he has any special management methods, or that he can simply use a ruthless hand to control people.In the past, when Luo Shengdong was there, all his subordinates were in the labor camp. Luo Shengdong was worried that if he was in a hurry, these people would deliberately sabotage him to harm him, so when someone made a mistake, Luo Shengdong often just scolded him for a few things.Although a lot of rules were established in the labor camps, the actual implementation effect was not particularly good.

But after Takahashi Minami came to power, this situation has fundamentally changed.Gao Qiaonan has no friendship with Ming army soldiers and Chinese pirates, and naturally he will not show any affection. Although those ronin and Japanese pirates are in the same country as him, they are not of the same level in his eyes. In the Bushido spirit, the scolding and punishment of the superior to the inferior is a matter of course.As for the remaining pirates in the South China Sea, in the eyes of Gao Qiaonan, they are nothing more than a group of uncivilized monkeys - ever since he heard Ren Liang make such remarks by chance, he took it seriously and enshrined him as a gift. for righteousness.

Gu Wei, after watching Gao Qiaonan reprimand the hard labor for not being effective in punishment, couldn't help sighing to Ren Liang: "This little devil is much more ruthless than us, with such a ruthless character in the labor camp, I see They're all about to lose their jobs."

Gu Wei's words were a prophecy, and within a few days, the Military Police Department sent an internal order to ask Gu Wei to report to a new post. The Military Police Department decided to recruit a group of local youths as future naturalized citizens. Army test items for training, and Gu Wei, who has rich experience in militia training before the crossing, is obviously the best candidate.

After Gu Wei was transferred, he became Ren Liang alone in charge of the labor camp.It stands to reason that Ren Liang will become busier because of this, but the fact is on the contrary, Ren Liang's life is more leisurely than before, all thanks to his successful discovery of Gao Qiaonan, the number one dogleg.Although Gao Qiaonan is not as good at figuring out his interests and dealing with interpersonal relationships within the hard labor as Luo Shengdong, and occasionally seems too rigid, it is this kind of rigid personality that meets the management needs of the labor camp.Under his strict control, the work efficiency of the labor camp has been significantly improved than before, and Ren Liang has more leisure time as a result, allowing him to even enjoy fishing while supervising the work.

If it was in the past, Ren Liang's bold employment strategy would definitely be questioned by his colleagues.But recently, Ren Liang is a popular celebrity that the Executive Committee is optimistic about. The improved version of the labor points system he proposed has now been put into trial operation in two newly established communes, and it is said that the effect is good. The Executive Committee has prepared to recruit more in the near future. A group of members, and will promote this "labor hierarchy" in the future control area.There are even rumors that the system proposed by Ren Liang is very likely to be considered as one of the legislative proposals at the first plenary meeting a year later.Under such a situation, it is also considered reasonable for Ren Liang to have some attempts at work. In addition, all aspects of the labor camp have recently improved, so no one will question his current management method.

Just when Ren Liang was thinking about how to cook today's harvest, Gao Qiao Nan Pi Dian Pi Dian trotted over, said nothing, bowed [-] degrees deeply, and then opened his mouth. The report said: "Sir Ren, the work you explained has been completed, please instruct!"

Before Ren Liang could speak, he felt his hands sink, and immediately raised his arm vigorously, and a half-foot-long crucian carp flew out of the water with the fishing line.

Gao Qiaonan was quick-witted, reached out and grabbed the fish tightly as it rowed in front of him, then took off the hook and put the fish into the bucket in front of Ren Liang.

Ren Liang nodded approvingly, "Taoqiao..."

"Hi!" Takahashi Nan immediately answered loudly.

"Don't always be hi-hi-hi in the future, it sounds awkward, you answer 'yes' when I say something, that's fine..."

"Hi!...Yes!"

"Also, listen to me first when I speak, don't interrupt me casually..."

"Yes!"

Ren Liang's mouth twitched a few times for this brainless little devil who didn't know how to work around it, and finally he could only sigh helplessly: "Takahashi, why are you so obedient? Don't you have any will to resist?"

Takahashi Minami replied solemnly: "Samurai exists to serve the strong, and a samurai who cannot execute orders is not a qualified samurai."

"Does your family know that you work so hard?" Ren Liang couldn't help but tease.

"Efforts will definitely pay off. I, Gao Qiaonan, will prove it with my whole life!" The humble little boy suddenly raised his head and said loudly, "Sir Ren, please believe me!"

Ren Liang couldn't help laughing and said, "Don't be so serious, I'm not the object of your allegiance. Even if you want to be loyal, you should be loyal to the Executive Committee, not me."

"Executive committee?" Gao Qiaonan didn't know much about the organizational structure of Chuanzhong, so he repeated the unfamiliar word.

"That's right, the Executive Committee." Ren Liang thought for a while, and then explained: "Just like the shogunate in your country, it is the highest authority in our Haihan."

Takahashi Minami didn't quite understand what the highest authority meant, but he understood the sentence "same as the shogunate", and his eyes lit up immediately: "Sir Ren, do I have the chance to become a samurai of the executive committee? "

"Of course, you also said that hard work will definitely pay off... Oh no, it will pay off." Ren Liang held back his smile and continued to encourage him: "As long as you continue to work hard, you will definitely have a chance."

(End of this chapter)