open sea

Chapter 793 Firmness
"Commander, Xiyi's extensive governance here is beneficial to me."

On the upper floor of the port office, Zhao Shizhen rubbed his eyes tiredly, pushed forward the map drawn in his hand, and said: "This marks the aboriginal tribes with a radius of a hundred miles in Agang. , the Spaniards in the port all had a family as slaves outside."

"According to military and civilian inspections, some of the aborigines were taken away, leaving more than 1000 people. Their owners were either killed or did not have time to take them away."

Zhao Shizhen added: "The main reason is that more than 4 people were summoned to the mine. They spend three months rushing to the mine every year, working for five months, and returning for three months to rest for [-] days."

Chen Mu leaned over and turned the map in his direction, looked at the densely packed tribal settlements above, raised his eyebrows and said, "There are so many people here?"

"There are more than we thought, Commander." Zhao Shizhen said that these faces were cold, and Zhao Changji, who was kind and kind, rarely showed such an expression. He stood up and pointed to a place marked as abandoned: "There used to be 2 people. People who live here are people from six villages who moved from other places. It took only 20 years for the people in this village to die. Most people died in the mines, some people died of old age, and some young women The Westerners who were assigned to the port, the young people could not find suitable people to marry and reproduce, and the village disappeared."

"This is a feudal city. Like the nobles in the Spring and Autumn Period, they put the Chinese in the port and the savages outside. Each household planted a certain amount of corn, pepper, and cotton, and gave them land, chickens, and mining."

"They seldom kill people." Zhao Shizhen nodded slowly, pursing his lips, and said, "But they are much more ruthless than killing people."

Zhao Shizhen didn't know why he gathered these maps, history, laws, population and other information into one place, and felt so righteous indignation and chills all over his body after connecting them together. In fact, he has been among the executioners all the time.

Everyone around him had blood on their hands. Even Zou Yuanbiao, who was giggling all day long, could lightly say that if he didn't kill a hundred people, he would spread everywhere. The three recent vendettas in the port were all related to the county magistrate's deliberate laissez-faire.

Zhao Shizhen just shook his head stubbornly, with a slight unconscious trembling on his body, and said: "People shouldn't die like this. It doesn't matter if you kill, die of illness, or die of starvation. Marshal, they shouldn't die like this. This is to exterminate the family. of."

Chen Mu felt that his staff had collapsed a bit.

"Chang Ji, your idea is right. They are exterminating their families. If we don't come, one day they will really be exterminated by their families."

Chen Mu is telling the truth. This is an extremely large race. They are even more numerous than Ming Dynasty people, Mongols, and Jurchens combined, but there are not so many now. If they develop normally, they will become more and more come less and less.

"But if you look forward, this is not the most tragic thing. You have to think about why they accepted such a fate, because the most tragic thing happened long before we arrived."

Chen Mu was referring to the counterattack and resistance of the Indians against the invaders, and they were suppressed again and again. In his opinion, that was actually the most sad thing.

The best men who had the courage to fight, died in the war.

"These things, if we don't go to sea, will we never know?" Zhao Shizhen tightened his burqa, pointed at the map and asked Chen Mu: "This will happen in Daming too?"

After Zhao Shizhen finished speaking, he shook his head and asked himself: "We are better than them, and their army can't beat us."

"There is victory or defeat for a while, but there is no victory or defeat for a lifetime." The very interesting thing is that others have almost blind confidence in the army he created, but he did not. He said: "The army has its strength and its decline. After decay, there will be change, and then there will be a new army, and the so-called national fortune is the same."

"My Ming Dynasty also had its decline. A dozen or so Japanese pirates dared to run across the land of Nanjing for thousands of miles. The northern captives invaded Beijing. There was a change in Gengxu. Therefore, a group of civil servants and generals rose up, the military revolution eliminated the old and the weak, and the car camp grew stronger. Firearms are updated, and enjoyment will corrupt people."

"Who doesn't want to have fun? Even Asia Economics, if I didn't know this, I'd rather go back to be a Jinghai Bo, and pass my life like this, than to have my life ruined when a storm hits the battlefield."

"But I know that we have been in a confrontation, and we are not afraid of losing. You can see that their writings have been destroyed, a generation has disappeared, and their bloodlines have been severed, but there will always be someone who will stand up in times of crisis, so people need heroes. "

"People have to believe that heroes exist. Only by believing in the existence of heroes can there be more heroes. If you ask them now whether they believe in heroes, they will tell you that as long as they still believe in them, there is still a chance."

Chen Mu said with a smile, "If anyone says he doesn't believe it, let him go to the Daojun Temple to worship."

"Illusory belief in gods is a crutch for people who are lame, but firm belief in reality is more important when they have healthy limbs."

Zhao Shizhen asked blankly: "A firm belief in reality?"

Chen Mu raised his finger to Zhao Shizhen, and said with a smile on his face: "You have to know that what you have done is making life better for the people of Ming Dynasty. When you shoulder more burdens for others, you are the responsibility of our compatriots." Forerunner, you are a god."

Zhao Shizhen couldn't help laughing. After he clearly learned from Chen Mu that his ethnic group would not suffer the same tragedy as the aborigines, his heart was no longer so worried, and his words became more relaxed: "So the commander-in-chief will set up an army in Asia. Many Town God's Temples?"

"I not only want to set up the Town God's Temple, but since Agang, the name is really awkward, I must change its name after the new contract is signed...Since there are still many people here, I have to prepare to plan a bigger county. The Yamen is planned to be outside the village not far from Daojun Temple, with that as the center, it will gradually expand."

"In addition to the government officials, we also need to set up an inspection department. Agang is our social experiment. It will be much simpler to build this place into a standardized Mingcheng, and the planning and management of other places will be implemented in the same way in the future."

Zhao Shizhen nodded slowly, and replied: "The students will ask the county magistrate Zou to prepare the county government and the inspection department. By the way, the students heard that the commander-in-chief does not intend to ask the Westerners for silver mines, but in the contract to send them to Mexico City Someone asked Yinshan to talk about it, why is that?"

"Because I want to ask them for money. I asked for money from the beginning and they will definitely not give it to me. But if the silver mountain is not successful, let them give me some money every year. It must not be a problem, even if I don't give money. They'll make concessions elsewhere, too."

"The situation is stronger than people."

In fact, Zhao Shizhen didn't know that Chen Mu thought it was wrong for him to force the aborigines into the mountain to mine, so he didn't want the silver mountain, but he still wanted the silver, so what could he do?

Persecute the Spaniards and ask the Spaniards for money.

After all, he is still a hypocrite.

Zhao Shizhen nodded slowly, and finally asked: "What is the commander-in-chief's firm belief in reality? Be a god in the world?"

Zhao Shizhen thinks that Chen Mu likes to build Taoist temples overseas, which is probably his belief?

Chen Mu smiled, shook his head slowly, and said something that Zhao Shizhen couldn't understand: "I am defending my ancestors, and pulling them forward, there is nothing more determined than this."

(End of this chapter)