() Governor Cohen and Sir Roy are very tired. Not only do they have to bargain with Zhou Fengxiang during the day, they cannot sleep peacefully even at night. And if you look closely, you will find that the Governor's Mansion has been brightly lit at night since the arms price negotiations began.
It was heavily guarded, and except for the translators from the Ming delegation, only the wealthy businessmen in Batavia Port with a net worth of more than 100,000 francs could get permission. What are they doing? Could it be the Ming Dynasty's pricing?
So high that these explorers who came to the East to make a fortune had to crowd together to collect money and bribe Devigne and others to persuade the money-grubbing fat man to give them a discount?
Things are really not that complicated. Under Zhu Youcong's instruction, Zhou Fengxiang adhered to Ming Dynasty's customary style of benevolence and righteousness and only charged one hundred thousand and two hundred silver per student from the West. After all, he was studying technology. If
Charging too little does not reflect the master's ability. Moreover, even if he comes all the way to work for Daming, he still has to pay for the food himself. With such a heavy workload, you can't just eat cabbage and radish all the time.
Every once in a while, I clean some livestock to get some nutrition, so the price is very reasonable and everyone can accept it. As for the rags that were taken back from the Tatars during the last Liaodong campaign and were piled in Shanhaiguan before they could be destroyed, the price is even more affordable.
Selling by the pound!..
Since you don't want to save money, do you want to hold a cocktail party and take the opportunity to bribe those kind-hearted shepherds to become undercovers? This possibility certainly exists, but the prerequisite is that the Ming Dynasty declines rapidly and returns to the right track of history, and no longer has the strength to compete with the West!
Even so, they still have to convince the church to let Jacob Roy be the pope, and then give the position of Archbishop of the East to Devigne! Therefore, it seems to be very unrealistic in the short term.
If those who are skeptical are a little more courageous, they can climb a tree or a wall or something to get inside, and they will hear the sound of reading, and what they are reading is the poems written by the Master! What the hell is going on? They all came to attend night school.
Is the business still going on? As you said, these guys are willing to spend a lot of money to hire Devigne and others to teach just to get greater profit margins from Daming in the future. Because in this negotiation, that person
The damn fat man said that if the agreement is signed in Western characters, not a single penny is missing. If it is based on the Ming Dynasty version, then they can be given a 50% discount, and this method applies to all future trade! 50% off, you know what it is
What’s the concept? The arms trade alone can save millions of taels of silver! After hearing the news, Governor Cohen and Sir Roy wanted to slap each other hard. Why didn’t you kid learn that?
Square characters came from the east, now they are stupid!
Without any preparation, they were tricked this time. After all, no one dared to sign an agreement that they could not understand. However, the two shrewd politicians quickly came up with a countermeasure. It was not just square words.
Well, we just have to learn. There will be many opportunities to do business with the Ming Dynasty in the future. We can make money back when the time comes! It just so happens that there is a group of magicians who are accustomed to studying Chinese and Western things in the Batavia Port. Under the temptation of high salaries, these are just profit-seekers.
The guy agreed to use his break time to come to class. Although anyone would be distressed to hear about the tuition fee of 10,000 taels an hour, they have a way after all. You can also enjoy a half-price discount by trading directly with Daming, which is a good thing
Who wouldn't want to? As soon as the news came out, the gates of the Governor's Mansion were almost packed. In order not to affect the quality of teaching, Cohen secretly raised the tuition fee to 20,000. While learning knowledge, he could also save some private money for himself!
"General, your move is too damaging!" Zhou Fengxiang, the Ming Dynasty negotiator stationed there, was trying to flatter Zhu Youcong while calculating how much money he could get this time to support domestic construction. Even when he did not join the imperial party,
In his heart, he actually had to admit that the number one contributor to the unification of the Chinese nation was undoubtedly Qin Shihuang. If this tyrant had not forcibly unified the written language, the entire nation would have become fragmented because it had lost the most basic factor in maintaining unity. As a Confucian scholar, he
He also understands that relying on strong force may make you strong for a while, but you can never completely conquer a country or a nation. The Mongolian Yuan Dynasty collapsed so quickly, in addition to their internal reasons, just because they did not pay attention to this detail.
.Just imagine, if people can’t even understand the laws and regulations of the court, then why should they abide by them?
"Brother Yi Bo, why didn't we think of this move back then? When those Western barbarians have learned our Ming Dynasty Mandarin, asking them to surrender will really save a lot of trouble when we go into battle in the future!" After all, everyone has different development directions.
Zhou Fengxiang was thinking about how to better manage the foreign countries, while Zou Weilian was thinking about how to eliminate as many enemies as possible on the battlefield so as to lay the foundation for civil servants to manage the newly occupied territories. This time, the Battle of Dongfan Island has already
He suffered a big loss. If he could understand that the people's chirping howls were announcing surrender, then even without Zhu Youcong's instructions, he would have left some room to rush forward and catch the workers.
"Where is this? My goal is to use force as the vanguard and culture as the backing. Not only to eliminate our enemies physically, but also to cut off their roots spiritually!" Although Zhu Youcong has nothing to do
However, he knew that later Japanese invaders invaded China and forced Japanese language classes in all schools in enemy-occupied areas. The most important thing Prussia did after occupying French territory was to ban the use of French teaching and switch to German. Why did the invaders
Even the elites of later generations can't understand how to do this, let alone a migrant worker like him.
Zhu Youcong really doesn’t have any bad intentions. After all, China in later generations has lagged far behind the rest of the world. If necessary, he should support others in their efforts to strengthen exchanges and learn advanced culture. As far as this is concerned, don’t say you are learning a foreign language.
Learning how to bark a dog is also worthy of praise. However, some people with ulterior motives took advantage of this and created the only weird country in the world where everyone learns foreign languages. In that magical country, it doesn’t matter whether you will be useful in the future, because the children have not yet mastered it.
If you are a native speaker, you have to learn a foreign language. There will be a foreign language threshold for you to go to school, find a job, and get promoted! If you can't speak a few sentences in foreign language, you will have to be a pariah and be stepped on forever!
Do you want to ask what the purpose of this is... Is it okay to integrate with the country and learn the advanced knowledge of foreign uncles? If we can really train all the people into high-tech talents, let the foreign uncles sweep the roads and sewers... and do all the dirty work.
, it’s really worth it to ask them to use 800 million shirts in exchange for a plane! But is it possible? Okay, let’s change the reason to immigrating overseas and occupying the enemy’s country? You think they are stupid, you can afford the travel expenses and they are not that good.
How many places are here to trouble you! Even if this problem is solved, don't we still have to abide by other people's rules and be loyal to other people's countries? Do you really think that everyone is stupid enough to engage in two systems and allow the establishment of a state within a state?
So in order to understand the opponent and the outside world, is it okay for all the people to go and make money from foreign uncles? But even if they have so much money for you to buy their national debt, you don’t have that much to sell! Oh, no. There is one thing
It can be sold by all the people and the foreign uncles will especially like it, that is the country! Maybe one day the Qingtian adults will sell out the country. When the foreign uncles come in, you and the ordinary people still have a way to save their lives, such as shouting loudly so that others can listen.
You understand the word "surrender"! It is really possible that the gun will not be fired at you by then. As for the gun butt and whip, anyway, a despicable national view has been formed. It has long been forgotten that the three armies can seize the handsome man but not the will.
It is said that after being beaten twice, you will gradually get used to it! From this perspective, an organization that promotes this policy and makes a fortune can everyone wear a big red flower and go on stage to receive the peace bonus! After all, it costs nothing to help others.
A guy who turned an entire nation into slaves with one bullet. If he doesn't deserve the Peace Prize, what else can he get?
Of course, Zhu Youcong in later generations is not qualified to express his opinions, because it violates harmony and needs to be reviewed! Even if he says it, the officials will not listen. He is so busy that he has no time to care about such trivial matters as the survival of the nation.
I haven’t seen so many knowledgeable people who care about the country and the people shouting like farts for so many years? But it’s different now. This is the Ming Dynasty. He is the general who governs the country. They are using it to cut off the roots of our Chinese nation.
If you recruit him, you can copy it and implement it in advance! Population control policies have begun to be piloted in foreign areas such as Liaodong. In the future, no one except the Chinese people will dare to transcend. Now is the time to lay the foundation for cultural invasion.
"By the way. Have you finished what I asked you to do two days ago?" If you want to completely destroy the cultural inheritance of a nation, besides writing and language, you must have another method to cooperate. Anyway, this is what the Western uncle taught, Zhu You
Cong simply packed it up and sent it back.
"General, the general has selected five thousand generals. This is the list of generals at all levels!" Ma Chengzu never thought that his new recruits would actually steal the job of the general's guard this time and stay with the navy to bully them.
people.
"I have already said that you can choose all the generals! As long as you don't worry, there is nothing to see!" Zhu Youcong was not sure whether the three loyalists of the sect who died for the country in history would rebel against the Ming Dynasty because of his arrival.
.But if they want to make plans now to play the next big thing, they have to go. "Are all the officers and soldiers who are left behind are Hui people?"
"Yes! According to your request, the general will be strictly screened to ensure that there will be no mistakes!" Ma Chengzu also couldn't understand Zhu Youcong's special request, but once the military order was issued, he had no choice but to execute it. For this reason, the Shen family
The five unlucky guys are still locked in the cabin with Yuan Shu and thinking about their mistakes.
"Are you clear about this combat mission?"
"Assist the navy to guard the Godavari River and prevent the enemy from large-scale reinforcements on the southern battlefield!" Ma Chengzu has never learned arithmetic, and he can't figure out how many people are considered to be large-scale. Anyway, General Zhenguo has said that when he is in a good mood,
When fishing on the shore, even if the enemy has 100,000 troops crossing the river, pretend not to see it. When you are in a bad mood and want to beat someone up, even if you are just one, you have to make some big noise.
"Wrong! Your main mission is not here!" If he only needed defense, then Zhu Youcong would not have issued that strange military order at all. What he has to do now is to free up his hands for the Ming Dynasty in the future and continue to lead the war to the west.
Prepare.
"What the general means..." Ma Chengzu was really confused now. If he didn't care about this, why would he stay? Is it really like what the fat guy said? He just squatted down by the river with two fishing poles when he had nothing to do.
fishing?
"There are a group of kind people here who have the same beliefs as you..." Zhu Youcong opened the map and pointed to a large area in the northwest and said: "Although according to the agreement, this is the carve-up area of our allies, but I really don't want to let it go.
They are disturbed!"
"General, are we going too fast?" Of course Zou Weilian will not let go of such good things as taking advantage of the situation, but Ming Dynasty's strength is there, and if he wants to extend his hand so far, he can only use force to make the people in the country miserable. Moreover,
This is even contrary to the original intention of relying on Karmapa Karmapa to provoke a war and taking advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of others as agreed a few days ago.
Zhang Yan, who had been silently watching her husband's performance, suddenly reminded her: "My lords, look at what's over there!"
"Persia? Islam?" After linking these two words, Zou Weilian and Zhou Fengxiang looked at each other and could see the uncontrollable excitement in each other's hearts. This time it was really a big deal, this damn fat man was tough.
I want to involve the three major masters! The cultural invasion he mentioned many years ago has begun, and we will lay the foundation for provoking other people's religious wars.
"Do you understand?" If you want to drag God in, you must rely on his followers, and the three loyal sects in the Ming Dynasty and their high-ranking officers and soldiers are the best choice.
"Please tell me, general!" Ma Chengzu didn't expect what he would do, but he would resolutely carry out the orders of the general.
"Hundreds of years ago, the Pope in the West launched a war that lasted for two hundred years in order to recapture the Holy Land and exterminate the heretics!" Pointing to the map, Zhu Youcong continued: "But my Ming Dynasty cannot withstand such a torment, so
The order this general gives you is to unite the locals, resist the attacks of our allies for them, and sow a good reputation for our Ming Dynasty in the surrounding areas! At the same time, you can bribe Persian officials to attract their civilians to join your team as a cover. You can do this
Follow Jiandou's approach of setting up the Mongolian cavalry regiment in the north. In the future, I will secretly provide you with all supplies from Wusizang, but you must remember that before you get my next instructions, you can only regard yourself as
Can the locals do it?"
"The general will obey your orders!"
"As for you two..." With a smile, Zhu Youcong said to the two people who were gearing up: "Once the Allied forces begin to cross the river, you will move to the Indus River in accordance with the agreement. You must support Ma Chengzu's troops during the agreement period.
We need to take root in the local area, and when we retreat, all but the necessary supplies will be left to them who are going deep into the field alone! Before that, they have to fool around with whatever they have to do!” (To be continued.)