From Chief to Ball

"If you want to do it, it's hard to say, but it's easy to say. As long as you do one thing well, everything can be solved naturally."

Chen Jian wondered, "What do you dare to ask?"

"Simple. Leave the party. Make a statement that you, Chen Jian, have left the Mexican party and express your disapproval of any views you have expressed before. Use your influence in the Progressive Alliance to reorganize the Progressive Alliance, continue to do charity, and express your views : As long as charity is done well, social injustice can be resolved, and no political changes will be involved in the future.”

Chen Jian looked at Yuanshan blankly, and asked, "Is this what Brother Yuanshan meant?"

He Yuanshan smiled and said: "Me? I'm not qualified to say such things to you. Besides, I have been in Nan'an Min County for six or seven years. There are some things that they can't see through, but I understand. Let's put it this way, when I was promoted to the county By the time the deputy guard was there, the letter had already arrived."

"Your father has been a school officer for so many years. You have a fleet and guns, and there are pirates entrenched in the south. You will be banned after they are wiped out. Women are also prepared for you. As long as you leave the party, you can get married immediately. Women are very beautiful and beautiful. I admire you very much when you are young, of course, you have a prominent family background. I can win you the next school priest, I think you can do it."

Chen Jian laughed loudly and said, "What is this?"

"It's nothing. You can make money and have a high reputation. Those families know a thing or two about Min County. Naturally, some people want to pull you over. They think you are the kind of person who wants to seek fame and profit. Give you a The opportunity to reach the sky in one step is also considered to be your potential, maybe a hundred years from now, another world-renowned clan will appear."

Ye Yuanshan stared at Chen Jian and remained silent for a long time, knowing that he might as well open up to say something.

"Mr. Chen, you have offended a lot of people. You are like a fish in water in Mincheng. That's because the foundation of Mincheng is too shallow, and the real big shots and big families are all in the north. If you make such a fuss, if you were in the north, you would have been hanged a long time ago." Know how many times."

"Some of you in the Progressive League said something terrible. How terrible is it that you want to feed everyone and make everyone better?"

"Some people in your Progressive Alliance write books all day long. What are they talking about? Accusing those big families of monopolizing politics, accusing those big families of owning hundreds of thousands of acres of land, and thinking that franchise trade should be nationalized instead of It is owned by the family, and they think that some industries related to people's livelihood should be owned by the people of the country, and some even want to equalize land rights..."

Chen Jian sighed, and asked helplessly: "Brother Yuanshan, what do you mean... such a trading company can't be built?"

He Yuanshan snorted and asked, "You have money, fame, guns, and the most frightening thing is that you still have thoughts and ideas... What do you want to do?"

"If you make a statement of leaving the party and marry a woman, this trading company can be easily established. Otherwise, it is very difficult to establish. Take a step back and don't think so far. Just trade on the island you mentioned , I can decide on this point, I am also the sheriff. It doesn't matter if most of those profits are taken by the Dutch, British and French you said. Your company only needs to transship the goods to that island Just go up, don't think about stretching your hands too far."

Chen Jian frowned and said, "Brother Yuanshan, you still haven't figured out some things. We can't make a lot of money just by trading on that island, and the Dutch, British and French took a lot of money. The best strategy is to negotiate peacefully and open free trade with the Spaniards. The middle strategy is to monopolize the air routes to live here and smuggle directly with those merchants in the Spanish colonies. The worst strategy...is to give up these things and let them be taken away by middlemen. This shouldn’t be. .”

He Yuanshan sneered and said, "Profit? Profit? If you occupy the island trade, what good will it do to the big families in the north? Their hands can't reach so far, will they allow workshops and merchants to grow more and more powerful? The elders will object; if one does not change and the other grows, people will object."

"Sucrose, what about the sugar business of those centuries-old big families in the north? You have created a new route to Qi, and what will you do with those families who collaborate with pirates to share the spoils? Now you want to make a lot of money, but you can This money is away from them in the north, they can't get it, what do you ask them to do?"

"If this is a ship, those big families are the captains, the big landowners are the hoists, the homesteaders are the gunners, and you merchants and workshop owners are just the passengers on the ship. Although the number of passengers is gradually increasing, even Sometimes I will take into account where you want to go, but if you want to take the helm, it is a dead end. The [-] self-cultivating cavalry outside Mincheng and the officers of the nearby garrison have changed. Who do you think is guarding against?"

"Mincheng is Mincheng, and the north is the north. When you have time, go to the places near the old capital and you will know. It is different from here."

Chen Jian smiled wryly and said: "Slow step by step, slow step by step. We have already lagged behind those people in navigation. The outside world is so vast, and we can obviously monopolize the smuggling trade there, so we just give up and let those people make all the profits. Let's go, I'm not willing."

He Yuanshan smiled and said, "There is nothing unwilling. It is difficult if you want more people to participate. It is difficult if you want to live better for more people. But if you only want to get rich, then It's simple. You control the charts, the fleet, the rich and the knowledgeable. Choose a family to join, marry a daughter, help those families run the business, and don't allow outsiders to reach out, and everything will be solved."

"If these things can't be controlled by those families, it's better not to do it. Of course, it's different after leaving the party, and some things will be different. After all, the big families are not monolithic."

Chen Jian said hesitantly: "Traitors, do you dare to use it?"

Yan Yuanshan waved his hand and said: "It's not betrayal, it's just that you went astray and pulled you back."

"The Mexican Party has split, and some people from the Progressive Alliance have sharpened their heads to get here. Using your methods to deal with you, I really want to thank you for teaching those people the law of contradiction."

"After you left, there was another turmoil in the north. A large number of unemployed migrant workers were organized to dig rivers and pave roads like Fujian City. The faction in your Progressive Alliance gave a solution: ask farmers to levy special taxes, saying that it is to feed these people Refugees; indoctrinate the unemployed migrant workers here. This is the future world that the Mexican Party pursues. Everyone has something to do. The peasants there are full of resentment towards the migrant workers and your progressive alliance. I am also full of complaints about the future you describe."

Qi Yuanshan said sadly: "We didn't think of these methods at first, but some people in your Progressive Alliance thought of it after learning and using them. Divide, disintegrate, and make farmers and hired workers confront each other. And these methods are just from It was used in the tools you taught. Since this is the case, you, as a gentleman, must be more skilled. Someone is naturally interested in you, and you are already rich."

When Chen Jian heard this, he really didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and suddenly asked: "Brother Yuanshan, I said that I am not for myself, and our comrades are not for myself, do you believe it?"

"Yes! Of course I do."

"Then the problem is simple. I set aside 60.00% of the non-dividend shares in this trading company and allow the country to redistribute. The cycle is ten years. Within ten years, the profit and loss are at your own risk. After ten years, if you make money, the country can take over. The 60.00% empty shares can also be redistributed. It doesn’t matter whether those families buy it or other families buy it. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and we will handle the most difficult thing. When they pick peaches in the future, they will pick them. This should be okay. ?”

Ye Yuanshan raised his head and looked at Chen Jian playfully.

After a long while, he said interestingly: "Mr. Chen, you are burying a barrel of gunpowder that will explode in ten years. After ten years, once you make a profit, the barrel of gunpowder will explode. When the time comes, the [-]% of the empty shares will be withdrawn." It will naturally fall into the hands of those people. How will the businessmen, those who have already invested, the businessmen who have benefited, and the plantation agree? And the thing you lead, I am afraid that profit is inevitable. Ten years later, it will be time for a new term When choosing the king, who do you want to blow up with this barrel of gunpowder?"

Chen Jian remained silent, and Yuanshan laughed loudly: "Mr. Chen, you are more ruthless than I thought. I went to Nan'an to see your spinning workshop. In ten years... ten years, you can accumulate the original talent of a hundred years. The accumulated wealth. Some of those big families have only accumulated for a hundred years."

He shook his head, took out a piece of paper from his pocket, took out a white phosphorous match and struck it to burn the paper clean.

"The idea I gave to Mr. Chen is still a little less tasteful than Mr. Chen's own. It can only be said that I don't learn deeply. It seems that I still have to read the brochures you published."

Destroyed the piece of paper, and took out a few letters: "When you go to the capital, send me some letters according to the address on the letter."

Chen Jian reached out to take it, and said solemnly: "Brother Yuanshan, you are overthinking."

He Yuanshan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, they will agree, because they haven't seen Mincheng with their own eyes, and they haven't seen the brochures you published with their own eyes, they are old."

Chapter 15 Stress response

Back home, when he was about to look at the addresses of those letters, Chen Siwen walked in, looking very tired.

"Father, what's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing. I was a little worried when I heard you say that country called Spain. You said that country is really that big? Bigger than ours? The gold and silver ships are going back one by one? I've been thinking about it for the past few days. It’s all these things, and I feel panicked. Tell me the truth, how is that country like?”

Chen Siwen stared at Chen Jian, and said slowly: "How can I say that I am also a military officer, and I always have to take care of some things. Someone must stand up to protect this country, right? You say that country destroys the country every now and then, so I don't feel at ease .Is their ship better than ours? What about the guns? What about the people?"

"people?"

Hearing this word, Chen Jian breathed out and said: "That white man named Yang Sen once said such a thing. A few decades ago, a group of about one or two hundred people went to a country in the south. There are many people in that country. An army of one million people, tens of thousands of people. This group of people entered the capital, captured their king with one or two hundred people, demanded two houses of gold, and retreated. At least this courage is very scary. "

It was the first time Chen Siwen had heard of this story, and after hearing it, he yearned for it leisurely, imagining what kind of heroic posture it was.After all, he is a soldier, and he is full of yearning and longing for this kind of story of breaking millions.

"Hundreds of people destroying the country... is a character. If I didn't lie."

"No lie."

"Do you think he will come to beat us?"

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "It's hard to say. They believe in a kind of god, and anyone who doesn't believe in it, they will force these people to believe in it. The purpose of their first trip to sea is to spread the belief in this god to every corner of the earth."

Chen Siwen said hesitantly: "If that's the case, I really want to see this group of soldiers who are one against a hundred. I really want to fight against them."

Chen Jian looked at his father and joked, "We don't have to be afraid when we hit the door. There are strong winds and waves on the sea, and we can't transport many soldiers. But if you are on the sea far away from your homeland, you are really no match for them now." .At least, the captain of the ship can go around the earth, but you can't do it. Sailor and captain, they are decades away from them. To tell you something you don't like to hear, if we are on land, we The Chinese Army has nothing to fear."

This is a truth.There is more than enough self-preservation at sea, and it may take a while to catch up if you attack, but it is still good to take advantage of this opportunity to fight more and learn, otherwise you will face more difficult opponents in the future.

Chen Siwen has the meaning of being an old man with ambitions for thousands of miles, but unfortunately he doesn't know that his cheating son has cut off his dream of being a general.

After a long silence, he mourned, "Yes. Their captain can go around the earth. I'm afraid we can't find such a person. Nautical charts, wind direction, islands...these things are much clearer than us."

He raised his head and pondered for a while, feeling a little melancholy, heyed a few times, and said with a wry smile: "It would be nice if I were younger. It's a pity that I'm old. Isn't their boat big?"

"Pretty big."

"Do you think we can fight them?"

Asking this question for the second time, Chen Jian didn't know whether it was because his father was getting old, or because he had always been brooding over this matter, or because of his special mentality as an officer.