Xinshun 1730

Chapter 270 Pioneer

Being used by Liu Yu as a bargaining chip to frighten the Russians, Renat didn't know the reason.In September, he and a group of captured Swedes followed Liu Yu to Weihai.

The French mission will then arrive in Tianjin by boat, and after staying in Weihai, it will wait for the monsoon to rise before returning.

Liu Yu returned to Weihai first, and had to prepare candidates for craftsmen to study in France, as well as preparations for Dashun's first trip to European merchant ships.

The first ocean-going merchant ship made of military oak and Taiwan cypress has been completed, and Liu Yu named it "Free Trade".

The scheduled goods have also been prepared in the south, and the people in the trading company have extensive contacts.

Whether it is silk, custom-made porcelain, or tea, they have been hoarded in the warehouse, waiting for the merchant ship Free Trade to go to Songjiang and Fujian to load, and to go to Sweden with the two sailing ships of the Swedish East India Company in January next year.

Not only Liu Yu has high hopes for this cargo ship, but also the shareholders of the trading company have high hopes for this merchant ship.

The trade with Japan has approached saturation, and the Nanyang trade is controlled by the Dutch. Now that Japan has survived the famine, it has begun to tighten its monetary policy again. The permission to transport rice and carry private goods may be abolished next year.

In this regard, Nagasaki's explanation is: Japan puts more emphasis on agriculture than business, and the salaries of samurai and feudal lords are all rice. If the price of rice is too low, it will seriously affect the interests of samurai.One of the major goals of this shogunate reform is to maintain the price of rice within a high range.

Although I am very grateful to Liu Yu for the currency policy proposed, and also very grateful to Liu Yu for the sweet potato preparation method, the shogun granted this kind of rice transportation trade for another year.

Therefore, this trip to Sweden will become the growth point of the trading company next year. Shareholders hope that the profits brought by this voyage can make up for the loss of profits after the abolition of smuggling to Japan, or at least be equal.

Now it seems that most of the shareholders are still positive and optimistic, and the stock price of the trading company has not dropped too much because of the bad news from Japan.

Mantou accompanied Liu Yu aboard the Free Trade, an ocean-going merchant ship with a displacement of about 1200 tons. Among the selected sailors were twenty trainee sailors who had just served.

The ship was also equipped with ten cannons, as well as a batch of muskets and swivel guns.

Being selected as the captain of this voyage, Mantou understands that this is Liu Yu's respect for him.

Because there is still an unfinished battleship on the shipbuilding platform, at this time he handed over his position as the captain of the cruise ship. As long as he can return safely, he should be the captain of the first battleship in Dashun.

"Ziming, I'm not worried about other things. The main reason is that after arriving in Nanyang, the Dutch may intercept us. The Dutch dare not declare war on us, nor dare to actually fight us, but it is possible to make some small moves."

"Such as seizures and inspections. The purpose is to miss the monsoon and delay the time, so that these short-sought goods will not affect the sales of the Dutch East India Company. Do you know what to do in case of such a situation?"

Mantou smiled and said: "Don't worry, sir. He is neither humble nor overbearing, and he is polite. If he dares to arrest the boat, I will shoot. If he can run away, the monk can't escape the temple. Isn't there a Dutch shop on the shore?"

Hearing this, Liu Yu was relieved.

"Yes. If you really dare to intercept, you will fire. I will greet Songjiang. If something happens, don't worry, the court will stand by us. When the time comes, all the Dutch boats will be detained." Next, copy the shop."

"Of course, if the Dutch are not so aggressive, it's better not to provoke them. Just hang our flags along the way. Don't provoke them just yet."

Turning around and pointing to the shipbuilding platform and dock in the distance, Mantou understood.

"When you get there, you will be in charge of the trade. The people in your own trading company will be in charge. I also explained that there. You can also be regarded as an official of the imperial court. After you get there, you will mainly hire people with wood tar distillation technology. .I also said hello to Renat and others, and they will also help."

Mantou wrote down Liu Yu's words one by one, and followed Liu Yu to meet the people who were on this long voyage except the trading company.

Those in charge of surveying, charting, and the pre-determined future captain of the merchant ship all gathered together and listened to Liu Yu's instructions.

"Most of you are old people in the fleet. You have also followed Bering to map the coastline of the Whale Sea before, and you have mastered various skills. I won't say much about this kind of skills."

"I have also said the precautions for long-distance voyages. You also know what scurvy is and what you should eat to prevent it. Although Westerners have traveled this route for more than 200 years, there are always various accidents at sea. Try to come back alive as much as possible, and your military rank will be raised by one level after you come back."

"The warrior is going out to see him off. I'll hold a banquet tomorrow night, and I'll talk about the details then."

After these people dispersed, Liu Yu went to the shipyard again, and transferred some young craftsmen from it. These people went to the French shipyard for internship.

Only these people are not enough, Liu Yu went to the orphan free school that was accepted in Jiaodong Great Wilderness that year, and selected the talents here.

These people are different from craftsmen and may have to stay in France for ten years or more.

The three views of adults have already been defined, but these ten-year-old children have not yet been finalized, and they can be regarded as taught by him, using all the textbooks he started from scratch.

Since the great famine, these people have hardly left Liugong Island.

Live a life that is almost isolated from the outside world.

Many years have passed, and they have forgotten the outside world and the stories their parents told them before they died. They have received the same enlightenment as Liu Yu, and they have almost the same understanding of everything in the world.

Teenagers don't know much, but just like children in later generations, they don't know why the earth is round, but they firmly believe that the earth is round.

In the classroom, they have learned about the level of the sixth grade of primary school.There are ready-made teachers for writing, arithmetic, geometry and Latin, and some other courses such as common sense are taught by Liu Yu himself.

These are the seeds for him to change the world, and he is very concerned about them. He also knows exactly what level everyone is.

Liu Yu can teach the common sense of nature.

Liu Yu can even say that sending these people to France, in terms of science and mathematics alone, they may not learn as well as the children who stayed in Liugong Island.

But some political common sense, Liu Yu can not teach.

If he dared to teach, the emperor would be frightened first.

Therefore, it is still necessary to send the brightest and the best to the "old revolutionary areas" for further study.

Borrowing chickens to lay eggs, when they come back, they should really learn it.

Standing in the corridor, like every class teacher in the later generations who checks the class, stepping on his feet through the glass of the corridor, observing the students inside.

There are some words written on the blackboard, and Kang Bushao is teaching the simplified history book written by Kang Bushao.To leave Dashun, they first need to know who they are and where their homeland is.

On the podium, the teacher, who was selected with a high salary, was reciting a poem in rhythm according to the textbook written by Kang Bushao.

"Jingkang is ashamed, it's still not snowing..."

The children below also followed the teacher's tone, reciting this word that has been hundreds of years away from them, listening to the teacher's explanation, and looking at the simple map drawn in the book.

It seems that the history lesson has not yet learned the death of the Ming Dynasty.

The concise history textbook written by Kang Bulao also has a nationalist view of history that conforms to Dashun’s ideology. It contains some private goods mixed with Liu Yu’s class view of history, but it is not so explicit. It only talks about land annexation and the like.

The teacher who taught did not feel any discomfort, and felt that there was nothing wrong with what he said, and there was nothing wrong with saying that there is no king or father.

Those who can pass the exam will not teach here, and the remaining poor talents, Liu Yu, do not accept much. The main force of teachers is those marginalized people who have received camp education but cannot claim the status of a good family.

When they are teaching teachers, there is a lot less noise about "learn the words of the sages and put the cart before the horse". With more than three taels of money every month, they will not go looking for trouble for nothing.

Glancing at the timetable on the blackboard, the next class of history class was math class, Liu Yu quietly stared outside as the bell rang for the end of get out of class.

As soon as the bell rang, the children were about to run out to play, when Liu Yu opened the door and entered.

The faces of those who were running quickly showed the unique joy and anger of children, and they seemed to know that this time the recess was going to be occupied.

Called Mr. in unison, Liu Yu read the names of several people, these people stood up anxiously, followed behind Liu Yu carefully.

Thinking of the memory of being slapped on the palm of the hand before, everyone is recalling whether they have caused some trouble again?
These children have very special feelings for Liu Yu. When the catastrophe happened that year, the oldest was only ten years old.

They will never forget the tragedy of their parents being starved to death. They are soberly aware of their status, and they have also followed Liu Yu to experience the stinking wine and meat of the Zhumen.

Liu Yu kept them alive, and they also learned to read and understand common sense from Liu Yu.

All children have serious psychological problems.

It's easy to go to extremes.

Liu Yu is not doing an experiment in socialized rearing, but the cruel reality makes this child a natural experiment.

My parents are gone, and the remaining relatives and elder brothers have either gone to Vladivostok or are serving in the army, and they rarely have the opportunity to meet.

They all grew up together, ate together, bathed together, slept together until some girls started bleeding.

However, they didn't witness other people's parents' loving scenes around them. This kind of collective life has been deeply embedded in their minds and has become a habit.

For Liu Yu, they respect but not fear, fear but not fear, more of a kind of love.

Liu Yu will give them a general knowledge class every once in a while, and he will take time to care about their lives on weekdays, and he can even call each of them by name.

Today, these children didn't know that their fate would undergo a change no less than that of the famine. They followed Liu Yu to the office tremblingly, all of them lowered their heads and stared at their toes in a daze.

"You guys are going to France this winter. Come on, stand up and show me where France is?"

He casually pointed to a stunned child, and after calling out his name, the child walked to the border map drawn by the missionary, and naturally pointed out the location of France.

He also recited naturally in his mouth: "The capital of France is..."

After the recitation was finished, a bold child asked aloud, "Sir, are you going to France too?"

Liu Yu shook his head and said with a smile: "I won't go. You go to live there for a few years, and I will send someone to bring you back after a few years. When you get there, you must be obedient."

Although these children were a little surprised, they didn't feel the slightest uneasiness about this unknown journey.

They are all orphans. During these years in Liugong Island, they have no parents. In their view, France is just a far away place, and life is still similar to here.

Moreover, the general knowledge class and the world map hanging on the classroom wall that they can see every day broaden their horizons, and the distance of tens of thousands of miles can be found on the map on the wall.

Compared with their parents, they feel far away from Jiaodong to Shandong. They, their parents and even most of the people in Dashun are no longer in the same circle.

"Sir, what shall we study in France?"

"You can learn anything, you can learn whatever you want."

Liu Yu is not worried about this. The basic education these people have received and the habits they have developed since they were young make it very likely that they will mix with the group of enlightened scholars in France.

Some of Liu Yu's private historical views learned in history textbooks, as well as their special childhood experiences, are very likely to make them the most radical group of people after graduating from French universities.

Different people have different perspectives, which is why Liu Yu doesn't want Dashun to send some government-sent students abroad.

The official students must be from a wealthy family, or they are simply the cutting edge of the royal family. Their buttocks will be on the side of the royal family and nobles.

If you are a Confucian scholar, after you go, what you see is either "leading beasts to eat people", or "no king and no father".

In today's world, the insightful people in the late Qing Dynasty have not yet completely despaired, and the gap between the East and the West has not reached the level where seeing a steamship sailing against the current will shake the three perspectives.

Sending "sensible people" at this time will only make them more conservative and reactionary, Liu Yu still knows this in his heart.Just as he was terrified that day, Chen Zhen went to Europe with the envoys of the State of Qi.

He hoped that the group of French people sitting in the salon talking nonsense would say what he wanted to say but dared not teach these children in Liugong Island.

There are many schools of thought on the Enlightenment.

Those who have lost their parents since childhood, have experienced hardships, lived together since childhood, and have received Liu Yu's private education, the schools most likely to accept contact are either the Encyclopedia School, the Equality School, or the Digging School.

This is related to their childhood life, just like negative electricity and positive electricity, they will inevitably smell the one that suits their taste most from the complicated schools of enlightenment.

It's just... If these people really embark on this path, they will definitely die.Because it is impossible to get through at this time.

Perhaps it will be Liu Yu who suppresses them in the future, but someone has to die on this road to be the founder.

These are the best boys among the group of orphans. Thinking about their possible future, Liu Yu wiped away the fleeting sadness in his heart, and poured each of them a small glass of fruit wine.

"A man is determined to go out of his hometown. If he fails to learn and become famous, he will die. There is no need to bury his bones. There are green mountains everywhere in life."

"I have taught you the common sense that this world has nothing to do with people."

"It's up to you to explore the truths about people, why there are rich and poor, and why the rich people's wine and meat stinky roads freeze to death. When you figure it out in the future, don't forget to come back and tell me."

(End of this chapter)