Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1150 There are many divergent roads, and today is safe ([-])
What is righteous learning and what is rural learning.

And why it is said that righteous learning is not good and rural learning is right? The ideological issues involved in this are also relatively complicated.

The difference was also incomprehensible to most of the people in the room at the time.

But after Meng Songlu finished speaking, there was a person who was recruited back from Nanyang—this person was mainly to take over the original public welfare organization left by the Dutch after Dashun went to Nanyang, solve the compulsory donation, and the donation that originally turned into a city The problem of compulsory poverty tax for the Chinese middle class - he can easily understand the difference.

Would have been a good charity.

As a result, a tax must be "donated" for marriage, funeral, burial, and cemetery.

The result is more people in need of charity.

So the man who came back from Nanyang interjected and said with a smile: "Duke Xingguo told you about you before, but I rarely hear such praise from Duke Xingguo."

Meng Songlu was very surprised, thinking that Duke Xingguo could speak well of us?This is strange.

Quickly asked: "I don't know how to say it?"

The man laughed and said, "Mr. Xingguo said that sorghum wine with ice cubes hurts the liver; yellow rice wine with ice cubes hurts the liver; white wine with ice cubes hurts the liver; sugarcane wine with ice cubes hurts the liver..."

"Then many people pondered for a long time and came to a conclusion. Ice cubes hurt the liver."

"You guys are one of the few who have doubts: Is there a possibility that it's not ice that hurts the liver? It's that the same thing in sorghum wine, rice wine, white wine, and sugarcane wine is hurting the liver, not ice... "

"Mr. Xingguo also approved that you are one of the few who think this way and can understand the essence of some things. It is the solution proposed, which is too nonsense..."

When the person who came back from Nanyang said this, many people immediately resonated and laughed.

I don't know whether it is self-thinking caused by the methodological worldview, or some subtle indoctrination.

Including Meng Tiezhu and the like, they all quite recognized this evaluation, so they sneered: "It's just like we were arguing about the equal land in Haizhou. You say I don't understand Confucianism, and I say you don't understand landlords. Juntian is quite Okay, but the way you think of it is too bullshit..."

Amidst the laughter of the crowd, Meng Songlu's face turned slightly red.

Thinking about what he said just now, I thought this is a rare compliment?

If this is approval, what is the irony of disapproval?
After laughing, Meng Songlu introduced himself, got acquainted with the people here, and listened to the company's introduction of the funding situation.

It's true that although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs.

The company subsidized them with a merchant ship, a semi-armed merchant ship, and the company's ships needed to be registered so that they could be recruited when necessary.Moreover, the armament on board also depends on how many cannons are allowed to be equipped according to the registration information.

The ship funded by the company is not too big, about 600 tons.

The cost of this kind of merchant ship is very fixed. Throughout the 18th century, the price of 20 to 30 pounds per ton was basically maintained, depending on the purpose of the ship, the number of guns and the tonnage.

Dashun is cheaper here, but after decoration, configuration, and modification, it will cost nearly 80 taels per ton.

Just to finance this merchant ship is about 5 taels of silver.

Because it is a franchise company, the captains of the company are all reserve navies with military ranks but no imperial positions. After registration, they can receive a little money every month.

Although everyone joked that Meng Songlu was an official, they were officials.

But before the ship arrives in port, the captain is the biggest.

The captain's military rank is a captain, which is basically the standard for the captain of a 600-ton ship.

Below the captain, is a registered reserve lieutenant.

Above sailors, they are basically "scholars" in the small feudal hierarchical society of "ships".

Including the ship's doctor and the deputy ship's doctor.

Astro-navigator, co-navigator, trainee.Astronavigators are required to be good at mathematics, be able to look up tables, and also be able to calculate lunar angular distance, trigonometric functions, and ordinary solar time.

Foreman and carpenter and tinker.

Quartermaster.

Boatswain.

Professional Tailoring—Sewing clothes for sailors is not done by tailors. Tailors make canvas. First-class sailors are also one level lower than tailors.

professional gunner.

cargo keeper.

breeder.

chef.

Further down, there are first-class sailors, second-class sailors, and trainee sailors.

First-class sailors and second-class sailors must be registered in Songjiang Prefecture, and the court has the right to recruit any registered sailors during wartime.Like a craftsman household, but not hereditary.

The only thing special about this ship is that the event is semi-official.

Therefore, both the captain and the astronomical navigator have semi-official identities. After they send the people, they will continue to carry out the mapping work.

Therefore, basically Meng Songlu can't control them.And he couldn't understand it.

The company has to fulfill certain obligations for this kind of semi-official activity, of course it is sponsorship in name.

Although such a small merchant ship cost 5 taels of silver, the company didn't think it was too expensive.

Carry some blankets, mirrors and other things casually, and exchange for sea dragon skins and sea dog skins, and the ship will basically pay back its cost.

This kind of 600-ton ship is considered a small ship in Jinghai Company, and the company basically does not have any smaller ships.

As for the reason, it was because the company originally competed with the Raksha people.

Before the Luocha people were driven away, the company discovered that the boats that the Luocha people could produce in Kamchat Ghana were only 500 tons at most.

At sea, the bigger the ship, the greater the advantage.

It's not that the Luocha man-made ship technology is not good, the main reason is that there is no hair in the Kamchatka area.

As a result, the cables used for shipbuilding have to be cut into sections of three to five feet long, and then spliced ​​together after arriving in Kamchatka.

As for why?

Because the cable used by a 500-ton ship, 20 meters, is exactly the limit that a horse can carry from Petersburg to Kamchatka, it's that simple.

Including anchors, cannons and other things, they were all brought in after being dismantled.

Kamchatka does not have a complete shipbuilding industry, and all needs have to be transported from Petersburg by horse.

On the Dashun side, the ship was built in Tianjin or Weihai and set sail directly to the north.

When the competition was fierce in the past few years, they robbed each other. The inertial thinking of Jinghai Company was that the ship was small and suffered a disadvantage. The ship ordered by the company was at least 600 tons.

Of course, Meng Songlu did not pay attention to the cruel competition reflected behind these boring figures.

But he soon faced a very vulgar problem, or a not-vulgar "benefit distribution" problem.

In short, after experiencing the immigrant uprising in the fur trade in North America, Whale Sea Company gave up the idea of ​​issuing vouchers internally and using monopoly power to sell spirits and food for profit.

Also let go of sailor welfare.

That is, for example, in a 600-ton merchant ship, [-]% of the tonnage belongs to the company.

For the rest, the tonnage is allocated according to the rank of the captain to the sailor, and it is allowed to carry private goods and sell them by themselves as benefits.

This was impossible in the past when relying on monopoly power to sell food, alcohol and tobacco to company employees at extremely high prices.

But after the uprising, it didn't matter.The company's bulk cargo mainly guarantees necessities such as grain, wine, and tobacco.

As a tonnage for crew benefits, various things can be sold, which can be regarded as a kind of "stable price of daily necessities and free trade of life adjustments" under the abnormal situation of the company.

This time, Jinghai Company sponsored this group of people because of the company's tradition, or in order to please Liu Yu and save face, it directly approved them a tonnage of 50 tons.

It should be said that it is quite generous.

This is to run to the Pacific Ocean.

If it goes to the Atlantic Ocean, the 50 tons of welfare tonnage alone will be worth at least 800 taels of silver if it is resold.

This kind of benefit needs to be understood in this way.

On board, everything is on board.

Therefore, using the goods on the ship to exchange for food and drink in the primitive areas passing by is public funds and is not included in private benefits.

But this exchange of public funds can only guarantee survival.

For example, the sailor thinks, hey, this coconut is good, but unfortunately the captain allocated only one, what else do you want to do?
Then use your own private goods benefits, and use your own private goods to exchange for more coconuts.

Of course, it’s not just coconuts, it’s actually buying things like mirrors, cotton cloth, etc., to have sex with the women on the island. The public funds will definitely not be reimbursed, and you have to rely on yourself.

Therefore, these tonnages given by the company as benefits and subsidies this time can also be regarded as "production materials" under certain special circumstances.

The first question Meng Songlu faced was how to distribute this tonnage of "means of production"?

There are four methods available to Dashun at this time.

Well field system.

One-tenth of the tonnage is public space, and the rest is private.

feudal hierarchy.

The same as the standard distribution method on board, the captain takes the big head, the first mate and the doctor are divided into the middle head, the first-class sailor is divided into the small head, and the trainee sailor is divided into the small head.

Riot Sailor Republic.

The tonnage is owned as a whole, and the exchanged gold and silver, etc., wait to be distributed equally after returning home.Just in case before the voyage is over, everyone will fight because of uneven distribution, or get involved because of competition.

Theocratic unity.

The tonnage is assigned to the only "priest" on the ship, Meng Songlu. By controlling the tonnage, a special means of production, Meng Songlu achieves the goal of controlling the three No. 40 people under his command.But the problem with this is that Meng Songlu is not qualified to directly communicate with the Emperor of Heaven. In theory, the only person who is qualified to communicate with the Emperor of Heaven is the Son of Heaven after Jedi Tiantong.

This seems to be a simple distribution of tonnage, but it actually involves the distribution of wealth in the future after the development of Honolulu.

This matter needs to be clarified.

For example, in the future, when the dukes of Honolulu entrusted them with land, they must first agree: Is it for me?Is it still for us?
Or, for example, the princes of Honolulu... the gold given to individuals... If they have gold, is the gold given to individuals mine or ours?
If this matter is not clear, and if a rule accepted by everyone is not reached, I am afraid that after arriving there, the fun will be great.

On a bigger scale, if you support Chief A, I will support Chief B, and he will support Chief C. Any knowledge learned, compared to the situation on the island, is considered a "traveler", and nothing can be done. Let's do it first.

To put it bluntly, if the chief falls ill, this is an opportunity to use his medical skills to rise to the top, but after the most knowledgeable medical skills go up, he will be given a thousand hectares of land, so what does it count?Those who know medical skills but don't know how to plant, will they be hired to plant, or will everyone cooperate?

What Meng Songlu learned was the art of herdsmen.

However, the art of herdsmen is of no use to these people.

To put it bluntly, these people are considered poor people, right?It's all a pack of wolves.

A group of wolves who came out of the first batch of practical schools and have been fighting for years in their respective fields.

A group of wolves who were marginalized under the internal imperial examination system in Dashun, who wanted to be huskies but couldn't, and could only go to the frontier to go overseas.

Herdsman skills, I really can't herd these wolves.

(End of this chapter)