Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1171 Preparations for War ([-])

As for when to enter the arena, it really depends on your strength, that is, you must be able to sit still.

If you can't sit still in advance, it is likely that Britain will not kill France.

Before Duplex came to look for Du Feng, this incident was actually the UK's overreach.

If Dashun intends to do something, then Britain will keep its promise and maintain peace in India, so that Ma Chaoerte's idea of ​​exchanging Duplex for the non-expansion of the war can be realized.

If Dashun didn't intend to do anything, then of course the UK would not keep its promise. The UK was a little bit afraid when Duplex was there. hands on.

This has nothing to do with the "justice" of whoever strikes first. They are all fucking colonists and invaders. Who has any justice?
The main reason is that Dashun was very displeased with Britain's refusal to replace the Netherlands as a comprador, but also to buy goods in India to replace them.If you want to do it, you will do it to death, or you will not fight.

But in Europe, it must rely on the strength of France. At the very least, even if Dashun pulls the navy to the Atlantic Ocean, it must have logistics, ports, berthing, and forts to protect these things.

All the forces on the table are shrewd like monkeys.

The prince of Bangladesh wants to kill two birds with one stone, the British want to advance and retreat, and the French want to appease and avoid war. Dashun needs to find the right opportunity amidst the various thoughts of these forces.

Du Feng's mind is still good, and he rejected Duplex's suggestion that Dashun should be sent to the French platform.

The prince of Bangladesh hoped that he could provide a Chinese mercenary, but Du Feng directly refused.

Chinese mercenaries are easy to talk about. Dashun has a bunch of former "evil boys" who have retired from the army. Said", the descendant of Fatima, although most of them may be fake, but religious beliefs are there, and they must not trust Christian mercenaries very much.

Du Feng is mainly fighting against Chinese mercenaries. He is afraid that some mercenaries who have retired from the navy and army will come over and push the British away. Once the internal opposition has been purged, it will be troublesome.

After all, Dashun is still waiting for this little prince to commit suicide.

Besides, mercenaries... They can really offer a small battalion-level mercenary officer a fief of three or five counties, and a price of 70 million taels of silver tax fief a year.Going to work as a mercenary, how old will you be when the time comes to recognize you, Emperor Dashun?How loyal to the emperor and patriotic is this, the feudal lord who put 70 taels a year was improper, returned to Dashun to farm and work, and was bullied by the gentry workshop owner like a bully dog?
From the perspective of personal fame, helping the young prince of Bangladesh to set up a group of Chinese mercenaries is a serious obstacle for Du Feng's personal search for a title.

Now that he has the wish to be a Marquis, he also understands what strength he will rely on if he wants to find a Marquis, so Du Feng is very strict about the training of the army and the distribution of military salaries.

The army was not his personal army, but the ladder he climbed.There are not many people who can understand this truth, but since he can be recommended as the governor of Ceylon, it is obvious that he can basically understand this truth after the investigation of many people.

Well mixed, it is the low-profile version of Xue Rengui, who set the Tianshan Mountains with three arrows and India with three wars.It can be said that when the Son of Heaven personally conquered Rakshasa in the Northern Expedition, he first climbed to Raksha Castle with a leaping horse and gun and became famous.

If it doesn't work out well, it's Feng Changqing who was slapped, and he has to bear the reputation of "corrupting military pay and stealing food and grass" before he dies. I really don't want to do this.

Knowing the overall situation, knowing that it may not be possible to fight at any time; and knowing personal struggle, not to lose too much because of small things, and you will have everything after you become a marquis.

Therefore, they are very strict about military training, military law, military law, and no favoritism.He told Zhao Liben that the military law was strict, and he was sincere.

Those who took the initiative to come to Ceylon basically have stories.Those who were forced to relocate or were dispatched by labor services did not count.

Or just out of curiosity, after all, the combination of a seemingly ordinary commoner and a small Korean nobleman, plus Liu Yu's letter, is a bit strange.

After Du Feng finished talking about the strictness of the military law, he asked again: "Why did your brother come here? These days and months, buying a boat ticket to come here, eating, drinking, and drinking, and usual expenses, but buying a few acres of land If you have a few acres of land, how can you come here to work?"

The corner of Zhao Liben's mouth twitched, and finally he replied calmly: "The villain is Huainan Yanding."

As soon as he said this, Du Feng clapped his hands and praised with a smile: "Oh, this is a fortune. Did you go to be a pirate? Or went to Borneo to dig gold? Or went to Kanto to dig ginseng to dig gold? These days, you are so poor For this sake, anyone who wants to get rich and get the first pot of gold is nothing more than stealing, kidnapping, killing and setting fire."

"You have skills. The previous amnesty must have been cleared. When I was a frontier soldier, I even snatched the Duke of Xingguo. You really have skills. Look, the salt reform in Ceylon There is also a lot of salt in the back, and now you are either rubbing bark or digging stones, and your kid has only been around for a few years, and you can come to Ceylon by boat. It’s amazing, amazing.”

Du Feng's compliment was sincere, he was still a bad boy in the frontier after all.It is nonsense to expect any approval of the sanctity of any law from a man who has spent his childhood thinking of robbing and getting rich.

Today in the border area of ​​Dashun, there are many such people, each depending on their ability.

If you do well, you will get the first bucket of gold; if you do not do well, you will die, or be hanged on the mast of a pirate ship, or be beaten to death for hiding gold, or be killed by someone who robs you.

It's against the sky to change your fate, you can only bet on that fate, and you are willing to bet and admit defeat.

This is all normal.

Since he is not dead, then the hero does not ask where he came from.

After all, during the heyday of the Han Empire and the expansion of the Tang Empire, there were groups of villainous youths, good sons, criminals, and prisoners on the border.

Zhao Liben also just smiled and said: "The governor has a good idea. Now that I have some money, I want to find my younger brother, go home and be a good citizen, and live a good life. I think my younger brother is also for the [-] acres of four seasons in the south of Nanyang. , I also hope that the family will live a good life in the future."

Du Feng hummed, the good news Duplex brought a few days ago, and today's accident broke the usual boring, he was in a very good mood, so he said a few more words.

"Looking forward to a good life is a good thing. The best soldiers in the imperial court are still good people and ordinary people. It's just that the good people in the Han and Tang Dynasties are different from the good people at this time. At that time, the good people needed a hundred acres of land for their families to buy. Only those who can afford sabers, saddles, leather armor, and sometimes horses can be called good citizens and qualified to serve in the army. Now the world has changed, and those who can afford sabers, saddles, leather armor, and horses at home only read books. And not in the army."

"People like you should actually go to the frontier. When you see your brother, you will either stay in Ceylon or go to Fusang. In short, don't go back."

"The outside world is very big, don't go back to the village and take up those three to five acres of land."

After all, he didn't care whether the other party listened or not, he got up and said: "Okay, since that's the case, you can find it yourself. This little brother surnamed Quan, since Xing Guogong asked him to read and learn more, he will stay here first." Next, you go to find your younger brother. Since he is a soldier recruited in the gem mine, you leave the city and go north along the road by the sea, thirty or fifty li. There is a place called Niganbo. The army camp is there, you go After that, the barracks is absolutely impossible to enter. But outside the barracks, it has become a town, so you can find out if you go and inquire about it.”

Zhao Liben thanked him repeatedly, and when he went out, Quan Zhe also gave him a ride.

After all, the two were not on the same road, they just walked along the same road, guessing that it would be difficult to see each other in the future, so they didn't say much farewell.

Afterwards, Quan Zheshen visited the hydraulically powered cinnamon factory in Ceylon, and witnessed that the hydraulically driven wheel saw defeated the cinnamon factory invested by the British here with a guillotine.

I visited the Juntian Village, Grantian Village, and the original caste villages here, as well as different villages that bought private ownership of land.

I went to see how the pearl catchers, the untouchable class under the forced labor, raised their heads against the former high-caste small farmers under the world trade system.

Visited the fortress on the border between Dashun and Kandy kingdoms.

Experienced a high-caste riot caused by the appointment of a low-caste Ceylonian as the captain of the elephant hunting team by the Dashun Governor's Mansion, and how Dashun effectively suppressed the high-caste rebellion.

It records the religious "war" between the Huiyi Sect and the Red Clothes Sangha, and the detailed process of the people on both sides of the Sangha fighting in full swing.

After copying and rubbing the rubbings of Yongle for seven years, the Ming emperor sent eunuchs Zheng He, Wang Guitong and others to Ceylon to erect the inscription. In addition to Chinese, Tamil and Persian, which are unknown on the inscription, were recorded together. down.

By the way, let's calculate how long it has been since the seventh year of Yongle and the first day of Jiaxu in February.

After that, I followed the team to the Kandy Dynasty, visited the Temple of the Tooth Relic, and saw the tooth relic of Sakyamuni with my own eyes.

Participated in the open and secret struggle in Kandy between the Dashun colonists and the British, French, Portuguese and other colonists over the Trincomalee issue.

Understand the ugliness of kings, nobles, and religions fighting each other for power and profit.

Disgusted by the large amount of land owned by monks and monasteries that are not engaged in production, they are sober and chose to promote Confucianism and destroy Buddhism after the fall of the Goryeo Dynasty.

Gradually, he really understood what Liu Yu said before he left, he understood the similarities between the caste system and the two classes of nobles, Baiding slaves, and gradually understood what Liu Yu asked him to see.

Indeed, there are some things that one cannot understand if one travels to Dashun.Because, the people of Dashun have long forgotten what is the royal land system, what is the non-sale of good land, and they really don't understand what is the strict status, caste and occupation system.

On the contrary, it is this backward place separated from Dashun, so it is easier to look through the mirror, with a bystander's mentality, and think clearly that the biggest problem in North Korea that can be solved is Dashun's coercion. open port?Or the caste system of the two classes of nobles and slaves of the Joseon King?
Of course, Dashun's forced port opening is also a problem, but is it a problem that can be solved?

During the period, Quan Zheshen actually had a strange thought... If he can't resist, and can't change the unchangeable, why not accept this unchangeable change and change the changeable unchangeable?
So, like the Japanese Confucian scholars many years ago, he began to think about the question that Japanese Confucian scholars had struggled with for a long time-if Confucius was the commander-in-chief and Meng Ke was his deputy, and came to attack Japan, what would our Confucian scholars do?If Zhou Tianzi raises troops to attack Lu, the master will fight?when drop?Should we welcome the emperor with righteousness?When fighting to the death to repay Loen?

…………

On the other side, Zhao Liben, who couldn't possibly think so much, was heading for the barracks along a canal two to three feet wide, moored in dry mud.

Most of Dashun's military camps in the direction of Nanyang are by the sea.It is not only for the convenience of transportation, but also for the convenience of eating fish and eating fresh fish.

(End of this chapter)