Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1165 Preparations for Battle ([-])

Compared with Quan Zhe thinking so much about himself, Zhao Liben's idea of ​​finding his younger brother is much simpler.

He feels nothing, pity or empathy or anything else for these people sitting on the ground peeling coconuts.

When he was digging gold in Huanglong Mansion, it was much more difficult than this. How many days will he not lift up a few people outside?
I am lucky, I have survived the hard times, and I have survived, and I have some small capital in my hands. Perhaps the only thing I feel is that I will not have to live such a life in the future.

As for whether the younger brother is dead or alive, it is hard to say.

I heard that Nanyang is often sick, but if he dies of illness, it can only be regarded as bad luck.

Another thing is to look at these tall coconut trees. After escaping from the gold mine, I heard that someone picked pine nuts and fell to their death every year. This can only be said to be resigned to fate.

Working outside these years, it is impossible for someone to lose money if they die.After he ran out of the gold mine, he witnessed with his own eyes a person in a large car shop in the town who had malaria and was almost rescued, so he was carried out directly.If it weren't for the fate, and crawled back in the middle of the night, only a few toes were frozen off, there would be another dead body.

Speaking of which, in a place like the Black Gold Mine, dead people are normal.But in fact, it is normal for people to die when they leave the gold mines and arrive in towns. They are all immigrants, and no one cares about them when they die.

Generally speaking, people do not raise officials but do not investigate.Dashun's so-called order refers to the three miles around the city's violent agencies.

People like Zhao Liben, even if they know that their younger brother is dead, might just squat down and smoke a cigarette, and then do whatever they want.

I have died a lot, seen a lot, and I already feel very normal.

With only a few hopes left, Zhao Liben found the owner of the plantation.

When the owner of the plantation saw Quan Zheshen and Zhao Liben's attire, he became more polite.Those who can come to Ceylon these days, and they don't wear work clothes, no matter whether they are long gowns or not, they may not be provoked.

Especially when Quan Zhe opened his mouth, there was a taste of Jiaoliao Mandarin, and the plantation owner was even more polite.

Weihai is the birthplace of Dashun's new learning and practical learning. The naval officers, the earliest sailors, and the marines are basically the first recruits in Dengzhou Prefecture.

After waiting for the first batch of practical students to bloom in all directions, they will become the middle force of Dashun's transformation.

Most of this group of people had better not judge people by their appearances, maybe brothers, brothers, parents and sisters, etc., may have one kind of relationship or another, which can be regarded as a characteristic of the times in the process of Dashun's modernization.

After politely asking about his purpose, Zhao Liben said his brother's name.

He only said that he had something to do at the time and left home in a hurry, so his younger brother followed the labor dispatch company to Ceylon.The plantation owner was even more awed when he heard this, thinking that those who left home in a hurry at that time were also from Huainan, maybe they were either the leader of the rebellion or the backbone of the uprising, how could such people be provoked?
He hurriedly fetched the roster, and after some inquiries, he said with a smile: "Both brothers, this person has indeed worked with me for a while. But the contract he signed with the labor dispatch company is only a few years. , so I won’t do it here.”

"We Ming people don't speak dark words. As the saying goes, people go to high places, and water flows to the bottom. We can't give too much money for this plantation. When he expires, he will go to Gem City to make a fortune. There He was recruiting, so he went."

"We all remember it here, and we are afraid that something will happen in the future. Take a look, this is your brother's fingerprint."

Zhao Liben didn't know how to read, but after these days of communication, he also knew that this brother "Zhao" in front of him was not an ordinary person, he could read and was remarkable, so he asked Quan Zhe to take a look.

Quan Zhe glanced around and found that it was indeed a deed.

The general idea is that the labor dispatch company's work period has expired, and this person can already hire workers as idlers and choose their own jobs.It happened that someone in Gem City was recruiting workers, so they went there.

There are a bunch of handprints and names printed densely on the bottom, it seems that they are all from the same group of people.

So Quan Zhe nodded, indicating that Zhao Liben was indeed the case, and asked, "Where is this gem city?"

"Oh, this gem city was not originally called gem city. The people here are called Ratnapura. If you translate it, it means gem city. His Majesty the Emperor bought this place out, and many people have opened mines there over the years. Digging for treasure, the population is increasing..."

The plantation owner explained a little, and saw Zhao Liben ouch, and his complexion changed slightly.

However, he didn't say anything, just lowered his face, thanked him, and left the plantation.

As soon as he went out, Quan Zhe wondered, "Brother Zhao, what's the reason?"

Zhao Liben sighed, and said with a sigh: "Gold, silver and precious stones are close to death. I'm afraid my brother... hey."

Although the two were destined to each other and had half of their life-saving grace, Zhao Liben did not tell Quan Zhe what he had experienced back then.

Speaking of it, it's all trouble.During the riots, it was really red-hot, especially the North Koreans who were slaves together in the gold mine at that time, the means of revenge were really ruthless.After the riot, some supervisors and guards tore off their clothes and tied them naked to a big tree.

In the deep mountains and old forests, there are gadflies, mosquitoes, horseflies, small bites... In a short while, a big gadfly can smear the flesh of a person's bite, and the smell of fresh blood will soon attract more insects.The avenger was tied up all over and couldn't move. He could only watch those insects, sucked in blood, fly away slowly, calling for more friends.

Zhao Liben was in Huainan back then, but because of the reform of the salt administration, several houses were burned down.

Over there, that's the real killer.

Things like gold are enough to dehumanize people, let alone gems that sound more expensive?

Now that I have experienced it, when I think of the mine, I feel that my brother is... gone.

Quan Zhe saw that his complexion was not good, and he thought that if this is the case, it seems right that the country does not mine gold and silver.Presumably this person should have worked in a mine... After all, the theory of the ban on mines can still be understood by Confucian scholars.

Thinking wildly like this, I inquired about the location of this gem city, but I didn't expect that there would be a kind person pulling a cart: "Since you are going there, let's get in the car. I am going to deliver some goods there. I will not accept you." The money is gone, just stay in the town ahead and buy me a pack of cigarettes."

Zhao Liben was taken aback, he didn't expect this to happen.

His limited experience in gold mines made him have a deep prejudice against things like gold and silver mines.But he also felt that there seemed to be something different here. The mine he was in, and the connections with the outside were all miners, but there was no such thing as pulling carts to deliver goods.

And there is a town in front of it?
If there are towns, it doesn't seem to be a bad thing. If it is really suffering, can't you run away?

Thinking of this, he ignited a glimmer of hope.

However, speaking of it, his "prejudice" is not unreasonable.

Not to mention the gold and silver mines, it is the Xishan Coal Mine that began to be mined in the Ming Dynasty. There have been many incidents of abducting and selling men and women at Lugouqiao to lure men and women to go down the mine, let alone how many people died.

That is still at the feet of the standard and no longer standard emperor.

Zhao Liben was worried, and sat in the carriage without saying a word, not knowing what he was thinking, maybe he was mentally preparing to find his brother dead after he left.

Quan Zheshen observed everything around him along the road, and found that the Chinese flavor here was already very strong.

Many places along the way are rice fields or coconut groves in villages.

Around the rice fields, there will be some simple water conservancy projects.There is no river here, but it rains a lot, so some reservoirs need to be built to accumulate rainwater when it rains, and can be irrigated when necessary.

It may not be useful, but once it is useful, it will be infinitely useful.

These water conservancy facilities, as well as the housing style, are very Chinese, and Quan Zhe can still see it at a glance.

However, wherever he looked, he could only see these superficial things.

In fact, the greatest impact of Dashun’s rule over the southwestern region of Ceylon, or the place with the greatest Sinicization, lies in the “secularization” of the southwestern lowlands of Ceylon.

In fact, Dashun didn't quite understand the "craftsman household" system, so he was not very comfortable with Ceylon's severe caste division of labor.

For the Dutch or the Portuguese, they don't like the fact that more nationals come here and affect the company's profits.And even if they like it, their population is doomed not to be like Dashun's, and they have brought in nearly 20 people in a few years.

So they prefer to take advantage of the caste system here.

Dashun is not the case.

How to change the soil and return to the flow?
The southwest region has a model.

Furthermore, the economic base determines the superstructure.

Before the colonial invasion, Ceylon's small-scale peasant economy was doomed to caste status.

Under the royal power is the high-dimensional caste, and the sub-castes within the high-dimensional caste include most of the farmers.

However, with the arrival of the Portuguese, Dutch, and finally Dashun, the situation changed.

First, the Portuguese promoted Catholicism on a large scale, making many people of lower castes in Buddhism convert to Catholicism.

People of higher castes have a deeper belief in Buddhism, and most of them chose to flee to the mountains, which freed up a lot of land.

As for the Kavala caste, such as fishing and pearl picking, fishing itself is an act of killing, which is not seen in the characteristic Buddhism of Ceylon.

Another example is the Saragama caste, who rubs cinnamon bark, which is similar to the Baiding caste in North Korea, and it is also a low caste.

There is also the Duvala caste, the lime burners, also a lower caste.

The problem is that with Dashun occupying the southwestern part of Ceylon, Dashun's commercial capital is here to make money, and it will soon bring over the secular atmosphere in Dashun.

What is secularization?
Yangzhou students went to flatter the salt merchants, and the scholars who traveled here exclaimed that the world was turned upside down. This is called secularization.

Pearl mining, cinnamon planting, lime burning, construction and other industries are the real profitable industries, and they are also the industries that Dashun really cares about.

farming?Do you need this group of high-dimensional castes to farm the land?Is farming difficult?

Dashun had no interest in occupying the whole of Ceylon, not even the slightest bit.

The amount of money determines social status.

Low-caste fishing and pearl fishing, lime burning for construction, and cinnamon planting are all industries that are being drawn into world trade to make money, and they are also talents that Dashun Capital urgently needs.

Dashun's capital has no interest in maintaining the small farmers' economy and growing rice here.

As a result, these low-caste handicraftsmen quickly created a group of people who became prosperous with the colonial rule of Dashun.

It’s a very simple story. A low-caste Duvala who was supported by Dashun and opened a large lime factory earned ten thousand and eight taels of silver a year. At this time, he met a small landlord of a high caste. The small landlord said that I was of a high caste. , You have a low caste, the owner of the lime factory will serve him in a humble way?Or will he take out 20 taels of silver and ask the bodyguard to beat him up?
The inside of Dashun is already in disarray, let alone in this kind of fringe capital-dominated area.How can there be any etiquette or caste.

In the past, a large number of high-caste people fled to the mountainous areas, but now the planting industry in the lowlands is basically dominated by Fubing villages and plantations in Dashun.

Soon, the "Religious Reformation" that may be inevitable for all countries to adapt to the economic foundation, under the influence of Dashun, broke out in the Dashun occupied area of ​​Ceylon.

It is somewhat similar to the previous dynasty's Xinxue and Taizhou studies.

A "Buddhist Retro Movement" called the Huiyi Sect, which integrated primitive Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism, and Siamese sects, broke out-religious reforms always came under the banner of retro, and they could only carry out reforms from ancient times. This set.

Two appeals.

First, the Sangha abolished caste restrictions and revived the Buddha's concept of equality for all beings.

The second is to accept the official management of Dashun, and monks in the Sangha are willing to accept the official ultimatum.

Needless to say, the class foundation of this gray-clothed faction is the Saragama, Kavala, and Duvala castes that were originally low castes, but have been involved in world trade and boosted the economic level.

Soon, this gray-clothed faction quickly swept across the southwest region under the trend of Dashun banning religion.In itself, what many Sinhalese call "taking refuge in the arms of the Lord" means that they can draw a cross, and they will go in to worship when they see a temple.

As for how much Buddhism there is in it... I can only say that a caste that makes fishing and pearl fishing can believe that their fishing and pearl fishing will not affect reincarnation, so I can guess roughly what it is.

Of course Dashun is happy to do so, which is very beneficial to Dashun's rule in the southwest region.

　If you go there now, you should still be able to see the remnants of this "Religious Reformation".Looking at the color of the monk's clothes, the bright red ones belong to the caste school, and the gray ones belong to the non-caste school. The economic status of handicraftsmen promoted by the world trade in the 18th and 19th centuries has improved.

　　
　
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