Wanli 1592

Chapter 316 Descendants of Sinners

For these people who left their hometowns to live overseas, the Central Plains Dynasty has always had a clear attitude, because most of these people are businessmen, or landless farmers who cannot survive, and they will not provide them with taxes when they live abroad. Although the Ming Dynasty did not prevent the people from living in Nanyang, the scholar class showed no sympathy for them, and this attitude of sympathy was very clear from beginning to end.

Therefore, after the massacre of Nanyang Chinese by the Spaniards in the last year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli was furious and demanded to send troops to conquer, but the courtiers rejected the emperor's opinion on the grounds that the treasury was empty and that the suicide of overseas Chinese did not belong to the people of Ming Dynasty.

They think that businessmen are the bottom of the four peoples, focusing on interests and despising friendship and reason, so such people deserve what they deserve even if they die. Who told you to leave your hometown and go to those places?If you don't go, you won't die?If you want to leave, I don't care about you, but if something happens, don't expect me to save you.

This is their general attitude.

And this attitude has also affected many people. It is generally believed that these people who went overseas are self-destructive from Daming. You don’t pay taxes to Daming, and you still expect Daming to save you?In terms of public opinion, they don't have an advantage either. They belong to the category of abandoned overseas orphans. The attitude and traditions of their mother country have directly affected their living environment. At the beginning of modern times, the Manchu Qing could no longer provide enough prestige, and the life of overseas Chinese in that era was called a miserable one.

But at its root, in the Ming Dynasty, which paid great attention to the local complex, in addition to businessmen, if there were people who left their hometowns and went overseas to seek survival, they must have done so because they could not survive in the country. What else can I do if I am black and can't even eat food?In order to survive, they had to go overseas to seek a living. The root cause was that there were problems in the country that forced them to leave their hometown.

Different from modern times, the Ming Dynasty in that era was the kingdom of heaven, and the citizens generally looked down on those "barbarians" with red hair and skirts. The reason for them to leave their hometowns and go to the "land of the four barbarians" was to survive , and only survived.

It's just that there are too few people who hold this kind of concept, and there are even fewer in the central government. But then again, the world is not peaceful these days. How does Qian's Daming take into account overseas?

There are not a few children of maritime merchants like Lin Yuanshan who live abroad and serve as officials. There are also many such people in the vassal states around the Ming Dynasty. These children of maritime merchants have read books, can write, and can do arithmetic. Experience and ability are definitely enough, and the golden signs of Ming Dynasty are like the world's top university degrees today, making them more popular in the vassal state government.

Not to mention that Daming just violently beat up the Japanese, and once again showed his muscles to the surrounding countries, telling them, even though I am old, it is still easy to deal with you brats, just be obedient citizens, don’t always Thinking about doing something!
After being warned in this way, the surrounding countries, whether they are vassal states or outside the system, have more respect for Daming. My respectful heart to Daming, announcing Siam's standing in line, and so on.

Xiao Ruxun received the letter from the courier sent by Lin Yuanshan on the boat, opened it and couldn't help laughing.

At this time, Chen Lin happened to come to Xiao Ruxun for a drink with two large crabs caught from the sea. Seeing Xiao Ruxun smiling happily at a letter, he asked with great interest, "Could it be that the admiral's wife sent a letter?" , Tell the children in the family to thrive?"

Xiao Ruxun looked up and saw Chen Lin, shook his head and smiled, "No, no, guess who sent this letter?"

Chen Lin shook his head: "Admiral, I'm a rough man, just say it."

"It's strange to say that it was sent by a man named Lin Yuanshan."

Xiao Ruxun raised the letter in Yang's hand.

"Lin Yuanshan? Who is that? A capital official or a local official?"

"Neither of them! It's a senior staff member of the Siamese King Narison. According to Daming's rank, he must be a second-rank official."

"Second grade? Lin Yuanshan?" Chen Lin frowned, and then said with relief: "Could it be that the descendants of those coastal merchants became officials in Siam?"

"Huh? You know a lot about this?"

Xiao Ruxun asked curiously.

"That's natural. The old man grew up in the coastal area since he was a child, and he is also an official here. He fought against the Japanese pirates at the beginning, and after fighting the Japanese pirates and the rebels, he has a deep understanding of these coastal maritime merchants. Although some of these people They are serious businessmen, but most of them have some armed forces under their hands. They are both merchants and robbers. They are merchants in good times and pirates in bad times. They have also done a lot of outrageous things.

Back then, the Japanese riots were caused by Japanese pirates!It was basically caused by these big merchants using the name of Japanese pirates to organize some desperadoes who could not survive. While making troubles, they did business with many small countries in Nanyang and Franji people, and they made a lot of money. Boman, later the imperial court was determined to suppress the Japanese, and a large number of maritime merchants were held accountable for committing crimes. They were chased by the Qi family army and fled all over the world. They had no choice but to flee to the surrounding small countries for refuge.

Of course, apart from the sea merchants, there are some hard-working people who can't live on, but those people are different from the descendants of these sea merchants. The descendants of these sea merchants, their parents committed crimes, and the next generation will naturally find it difficult to return home. Over time, I can only give up the idea of ​​going back, take root in these small countries, do some business, or simply serve as courtiers to the kings of these vassal states.

These people have been educated, literate, can do arithmetic, and also have other skills. They are rare talents for those vassal states. We recruit them to be ministers, or teachers, and train students. Their lives are better than those in China. , and those landless peasants who really can't survive are illiterate, and it's good to survive. How can it be possible to achieve the position of minister? "

Chen Lin filled up the wine with a face full of disdain, and sat down with two sea crabs, one for each, and said: "If it is true, these people are still people without kings and fathers. As Chinese descendants, they don't want to serve the country. These vassals worked their lives, if they hadn’t considered the relationship with the surrounding vassals, these people would have been captured and killed by the army early in the morning, and they can still be kept until today. I think this Lin Yuanshan must have a guilty conscience. His father or his grandfather , must be one of the maritime merchants who caused trouble in the southeast back then, admiral, what did he say? Did he ask for mercy or something? Just ignore them!"

Xiao Ruxun heard about these secrets that he had never heard before, and he also had a little understanding of these Chinese in Southeast Asia and South Asia.

In addition to those landless farmers who can't survive, there are also a large number of descendants of criminals who are active here!

(End of this chapter)