Wanli Youming

Chapter 569 Unlocking the Wisdom of the People and Gathering People's Hearts

Chapter 569 Unlocking the Wisdom of the People and Gathering People's Hearts

But Huang Da later found out that there are many more advanced entertainment activities and meals on this boat, but they only cost a lot of money.

This made Huang Da, who already had some money, feel that the life on the boat was not boring.

Operating some fee-charging projects on board is the situation that existed after the Ming Dynasty started the government-run shipping industry and carried out large-scale immigration.

Basically, the merchants who operate all kinds of goods and services on the ship are merchants with powerful and bureaucratic backgrounds, but they are under the name of official merchants registered in the Ministry of Commerce.

The reason why the imperial court allowed them to do so was because if the rich and powerful bureaucrats were not allowed to earn extra money by doing business, then the rich and powerful bureaucrats would earn extra money by colluding with the sailors on the ship to blackmail the merchants on the ship.

After all, sailors are not good-natured people, and they also have profit-seeking intentions. Especially at sea, the cost of covering up violations of military discipline is very low. Therefore, the court can only cut off the situation where the rich and bureaucrats directly collude with sailors for extortion. Appear.

This is undoubtedly more civilized.

Naturally, the navy cannot do business directly, but a large part of the income from official and business operations will still be turned over to the state treasury, and then the treasury will distribute a part of the profits to them in the form of various subsidies and bonuses, so as to avoid the navy's resentment that the court does not allow them to do business directly. Generate dissatisfaction.

Turn the words back.

While enjoying the high-end entertainment life on board, Huang Da would also read the books and newspapers on board, and even listen to operas and books.

And because of this, Huang Da was able to learn about the Huangshan tragedy and the Sheliao Island tragedy through dramas and newspapers, as well as the Portuguese invasion of Tuen Mun Island that was not widely publicized by the Ming court before.

Huang Da got a better understanding of Xiyi's true face, especially after reading the sharp writing and incisive analysis of some newspaper columnists, he was even more sure that Xiyi would probably kill Hua.

This greatly increased his knowledge.

"It was right for us to get on the boat and leave. According to the deduction of this old Ivy, even if the imperial court does not want to recover Luzon, the Han people in Luzon will be slaughtered!"

Because of this, Huang Da talked to his wife Hong Shi on the boat.

After hearing this, Hong asked, "Why, aren't we Han people already very honest?"

"You are really a woman's opinion! No matter how honest a fat sheep is, it is still a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered!"

Huang Da said something angrily, and then looked at Hai Bo outside the window.

Knowing that he was angry at him not against him but because he was worried about his father-in-law Huang Kang and his mother-in-law, Hong asked, "That is to say, master and wife."

Huang Da clenched his fists, didn't speak, just looked in the direction of Manila in a daze.

The books and newspapers placed by the officials and merchants who run the business on the ship according to the order of the court are basically to enlighten the people's wisdom, so that many scholars and people can broaden their horizons through reading, and under the guidance of some well-informed people, they can further understand the operating logic of the world, and then know that the court Why do you do this.

Not only books and newspapers, but for ordinary Han people who are not able to read, or do not know a few words, mainly through dramas and listening to books to know why the Ming Dynasty wanted to recover Luzon and why the Western Barbarians in Luzon wanted to be wiped out .

"Kill these thieves!"

"If you kill them, especially that Maquina, you should cut him to pieces!"

Therefore, in the storytelling area and drama area on the ship, ordinary Han people who returned home every day were affected by these works and became emotional after knowing the stories of these Western barbarians harming the people, and even shouted and killed them.

Thus.

Almost all Han businessmen who are willing to return to China are more willing to believe that the imperial court is willing to pay such a high price to bring them back to the country because it is really for their lives and properties. Many of them have also begun to appreciate the imperial court because of this, knowing that the imperial court takes them seriously. In fact, because they are far away overseas and have not contributed to Daming and paid taxes, they don't care about their personal lives and interests.

Therefore, the entire fleet of evacuated overseas Chinese went very smoothly on the way back to China, without any mutiny.

The only conflict is that after seeing the white-skinned orchid, the emotional Han people also regarded it as a person full of evil and wanted to take revenge, but there were not many of them. Li carried out coupled attacks and revenge on the prostitute Orchid.

"Is what you said true?"

It didn't take long for Chen Lin to know about Tu Hua in Manila, and after he knew it, he asked a Jin Yiwei who had just caught up with the evacuation fleet on a wave boat and came to report the situation.

This Jinyiwei's name is Xie Jing. He was originally a strong man from Guangdong and Guangxi. He should belong to the South Asian race genetically. He belongs to the same race as many natives in Southeast Asia, so the skin color and body shape are basically the same, so it is easy to mix into the Philippine soil. among people.

Since Zhu Yijun let Zhang Jingxiu take charge of Jinyiwei, Zhang Jingxiu's promotion to Jinyiwei's official school is based on merit, especially military merit, so there are many people like Xie Jing who would rather take the risk of never coming back after joining Jinyiwei. Working as an undercover agent among the natives of Nanyang, he learned the native language in order to collect important information for Jin Yiwei.

Because once a certain number of years is reached, he can directly serve as a hereditary official of a hundred households after returning to Beijing, and his promotion will also be given priority in the future.

Less gossip.

Xie Jing replied after Chen Lin asked: "Yes! They are madly massacring the Chinese who refused to follow Master Wang back to the country, even the Chinese who were baptized by them, the elderly, children and women, and took their money , and they plowed the fields, and the natives were also instigated by them to help slaughter, and many Chinese lived together with corpses strewn all over the field, and their heads filled the ravines."

Xie Jingrao is a man of firm will, and his voice trembled slightly as he spoke.

Liu Yingqiu on the side pressed his lips tightly, and asked, "Does that mean Huang, Li and other Chinese families are not spared?"

Xie Jing nodded, and said: "Of course! And the first ones killed by the bandits are them and their family members!"

"I've persuaded him, but I'm short of directly ordering or kneeling down to beg Huang Kang!"

At this moment Liu Yingqiu sighed and said.

Chen Lin said: "Have you rescued any living people?"

"Have!"

"Knowing that the imperial court might need it, some of my Jin Yiwei posing as natives joined forces with a few trustworthy natives to rescue some Han people and brought them back now."

Xie Jing replied.

After hearing this, Chen Lin looked at Liu Yingqiu: "Let these people go and talk about the current situation in Manila to the soldiers and people on the ship, just like your Majesty let the soldiers and people affected by the Huangshan disaster go to various places to tell the evil of the bandits, so as to further open up people's wisdom and gather people's hearts. !"

Liu Yingqiu nodded and asked Xie Jing to follow him.

As for Chen Lin, he walked out of the cabin, came to the deck, and looked to the south.

An hour later.

Nong Shoucheng, the son of a Chinese merchant in Manila who was returned by Jin Yiwei, entered the cabin of a big bird ship, and saw many Han people in the same clothes as himself watching Orchid dancing in a gorgeous hall like heaven, or sitting After sipping tea and chatting on the wicker chair beside him, his face was full of joy and contentment, he couldn't help but think of the tragedy he saw in Manila, and his family members who had been slaughtered.

(End of this chapter)