From Chief to Ball

All these variables happened during the period when Indian companies gained dominion in India and the technological progress of the Industrial Revolution was forcibly spread.

If we cannot grasp the time we are fighting for, the future will be an even more terrifying double-sided noose.

It is a period of opportunity, but also a greater crisis is planted.

However, Chen Jian had no choice but to choose the lesser of two evils.

In the end, under the secret negotiation between Chen Jian and these interest groups, everyone accepted Chen Jian's suggestion of first India and then spices.

The Mexican party allowed Huaxia's Indian companies to stay, dock, supply, and even station soldiers in Wangbei City.

The supply of the Indian company in Wangbei City does not need to be paid in cash, but can be settled directly in the bank of Min County in the form of bills, or can be exchanged at the bank of Min County for a certain amount of banknotes commonly used by immigrants to conduct transactions in Wangbei City.

Wangbei City can provide clothing, gunpowder, sails, ropes, maintenance and food for the armed employees of the Indian companies stationed there.

The Mexican party organization in Wangbei City will send people to accompany the first batch of ships of the Indian company to India, and can also help them find Indian businessmen in Pattani or Ayutthaya for introduction.

In the event of a war, the fleet of Wangbei City can help the Indian company capture Malacca, and it can also help organize a certain number of immigrants from the Ming Empire to go to Malacca to expand its power there and build fortresses.

At the same time, if a war with Portugal is confirmed, the Mexican party organization in Wangbei City and the monopoly company of the Ming Empire Maritime Group will take over Macau if the opportunity permits, and cut off the trade between the Portuguese and the Ming Empire and Goa. Together against the Portuguese.

However, Huaxia's Indian company is not allowed to occupy Manila without the consent of the Mexican Party.As for the spice trade of the Dutch, Chen Jian also negotiated with two Indian companies in the Netherlands and China. For the time being, do not make a move to monopolize the spice trade, but try to reach an agreement with the Dutch that Europe belongs to the Netherlands and the Republic belongs to the Indian company. conditions of non-aggression.

For the time being, Wangbei City is the trading port for spices exchanged with the Netherlands for handicraft products, so as to attract the Dutch to continue investing in the Spice Islands, so that they can't extricate themselves from investing too much. It is impossible for a strong man to give up the spice trade and run India.

Wangbeicheng and Indian companies will cooperate to fight against smuggling and piracy, including Indian companies using their own power advantages to help formulate a series of systems to combat smuggling and regular cruises along the coast, while Wangbeicheng’s forces will expel other people who may go deep into the South China Sea. forces, and combat any pirate groups that may be supported and used by the enemy.

Of course, the premise of all this cooperation is that Huaxia's Indian company's first step in India goes smoothly.

At the very least, it is necessary to obtain legal trade rights, the right to open factories and the right to pay taxes, otherwise all established interest bases will no longer exist.

After the negotiation of various pre-determined terms for bringing disaster to the east, the Huaxia India Company, formed by the power family and the rent-seeking capital, dispatched three ships filled with various rare goods, commanded by that young man with a colonialist mind. , and the board of directors appointed the young man who followed Chen Jian to sail around the world and wanted to do something big as the company's first full-fledged governor in India.

On the pier of the capital's coastal defense city, this young and ambitious young man knew that he had taken the first step. With the lofty enthusiasm of a young man, he set foot on the flagship that crossed the Pacific Ocean and docked in Wangbei City, just like a few years ago. Chen Jian was still young when he embarked on a global voyage.

He has nothing but youth and ambition.

But this is enough, at least, this is an era when young people without noble blood can realize their ambitions.

The era in which young people dare to be ambitious and upstarts may appear is full of vitality.

Chapter 63 New Vocabulary

The Indian company has taken the first step in the expansion and colonization. It is completely different from the trade-led model of the southern coastal area, but it will eventually go to that model logically.

In this era where nouveau riche and careerists can emerge from old to new, not only Chen Jian participated in various activities, but also many folk forces began to explore this world for profit, fame, or seeking excitement. world.

Several fur traders in the north funded and formed an armed expedition team of about 180 people, promising to provide various supplies, and all profits harvested in the future will be divided into four or six.

They believe that starting from the vast forests and pines in the north, there may be a passage to the west coast.There are always roads, but it is not a road worth taking, depending on whether there are a large number of water systems that can be used as passages for connection and transit.

The furs in the north are also very marketable now, and can be exchanged for a large amount of silver. Merchants believe that this will be a lucrative expedition.

The expedition team of more than 180 people carried guides, octants and goniometers, propped up ancient birch bark boats, and continued to move forward along the river. They lived by hunting and recorded everything they saw along the way. , and look forward to being the first Chinese to reach the West Coast by land.

Such an expedition is just a microcosm of an era. People with different purposes gather together for the same thing, or for fame, or for profit, or for dreams.

Perhaps, a bold and reckless captain accepted the sponsorship of others to try to find a direct route to Europe through the cold northern seas that many people dare not try. Some people think that there may be an ocean or waterway in the north.

Perhaps, a dozen or so people got mad after drinking, sold their property and went out to sea in a small boat, hoping to find an island full of gold and silver.

Perhaps, hundreds of people who are dissatisfied and disappointed with the reality but do not want to change, after careful discussion, bought a small boat and enough seeds and grains to go to some overseas places to build a dream city belonging to these hundreds of people.

One purpose or another has made people's understanding of the world clearer, and has changed the world that was originally defined by thinking, feeling or what should be.

This kind of improvement of world cognition is not only a geographical world, but a world with many different meanings.

When the tentacles of colonialism spread outward, not many people on the streets of the capital knew what kind of impact and harm these established companies would have on the world.

When Chen Jian and the Dutch were still racking their brains on the issue of allowing coastal craftsmen from Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Fujian to go to islands or cities controlled by the Dutch; When the first step was to make profits from land rent; when Nanyang Company was preparing to expand its share capital to attract some big families to cooperate with power and money, and when it was preparing to establish the first colonial slave trading base in Africa... many people in the capital Instead of discussing these things, I was shocked by the two books and became a must-have topic for many people to chat.

The first book was created by Lin Xi based on his voyage experience, detailed paintings, and the choice between domesticated species and wild species, and the tortoises and birds of the same species separated by tens of miles in the south to adapt to the environment after revision by Chen Jian. All kinds of changes, not all of them, are just the first two volumes of "Species Evolution, Survival by Keeping the Way".

The other is Lan Qi, shortly after the publication of Lin Xi's book, borrowed the concept of many species evolution to keep the way, regards productivity production tools as a kind of "way", and regards production relations and social forms as evolvable Some kind of "thing", which is just a collection of pamphlets and voyage knowledge, has no preconceived position "about clans, settlements, countries, rulers and ruled, reasonable and unreasonable plundering of wealth, relations between men and women, etc. Miscellany of Problems.

These two books did not appear out of thin air. Lin Xi had already been influenced by Chen Jian subtly ten years ago. This influence has been like the white roots of fungi growing in the woods. , This forest discovered that all kinds of mushrooms popped up overnight.

And this kind of heavy rain is the previous round-the-world voyage that could have come back early but detoured to Australia, New Zealand and South America.With this voyage, those germinated consciousness finally broke through the ground, and ten years of preparation also made this book a huge sensation once it was published in the capital.

The title of the book is Survival of the Dao, or Survival of the Fittest, never the concept of Survival of the Strong.

And Lin Xi's worries expressed in the final epilogue of the first two volumes have also become one of the reasons why this book has been enthusiastically discussed in teahouses, restaurants, cocoa coffee and young people's gatherings in the capital.

Are people with social attributes and people with species attributes the same concept?This is Lin Xi's doubts, and it is also the reason why she swore to Yuemeng not to consider people of social attributes.

After the sufficient evidence about keeping the truth, Lin Xi tried to ask people what is the ultimate purpose of understanding these truths?

If human beings are a species, and people are considered with the concept of species, then the best choice should be to give up any means of midwifery, medicine, etc., so that the human species can be stronger and more powerful than before.

If human beings are a social attribute, and people are considered socially, then childbirth, medicine and other means are meaningful and must be done.

But the question is, for human beings, the human beings that people want, that is, the set including themselves, is the species attribute the priority?Or social attributes first?

Lin Xi really doesn't want to consider the social attributes of people, she just wants to treat people as animals quietly, but reality doesn't give her such an opportunity.

Judging from the samples of tortoises and sparrows obtained from the Galapagos Islands, Lin Xi proposed that one of the conditions for the birth of new species is reproductive isolation.Including the fact that it is possible to have children, but it is difficult to combine due to geographical isolation or different courtship methods, which are all regarded as a part or starting point of reproductive isolation.

Originally, this was purely an academic issue of natural history, but some people involved the concept of reproductive isolation creating new species to human beings.

In line with Chen Jian's description of "Global Experience Records" with private goods, someone put forward such a point of view after reading Lin Xi's book.

Since reproductive isolation is the basis for the birth of new species, but this basis is divided into pre-fertilization isolation and post-fertilization isolation, are European nobles and commoners the same species?Or has it been divided into two species?

Similarly, this situation also exists in China. What is the difference between the intermarriage between those big families, the pre-fertilization and isolation caused by status, economic and other reasons, and the differences in courtship methods caused by geographical isolation of those animals? ?

If there is no difference, it means that not only have the classes of the same people been separated, but from the perspective of natural history, reproductive isolation has actually occurred and become different species.

If it is said to be different species, it is reasonable for the weak to prey on the strong.Of course lions want to eat sheep, this is the way of nature and right and proper.

But sheep don't eat sheep.Therefore, if it is still admitted that human beings are a species, and the rich and the poor are still the same species, then a society where the weak prey on the strong is unreasonable.

Similarly, if it is a different species, then lions can certainly eat sheep, and they eat them with sharp teeth and claws.Then, a sheep can also kill a lion, but instead of fangs and claws, it uses horns.That being the case, it seems that any uprising and resistance can be endowed with justice, because it is impossible to say that lions can eat sheep and prevent sheep from resisting...

This is the reaction of people to this book that Chen Jian did not expect. When he heard people talking about these things, he couldn't help being surprised and re-examined the thinking mistakes brought about by many of his "experiences".

At least, he felt that he had made the mistake of not being realistic and seeking truth in this matter.

It is completely different from the impact of the appearance of books on the evolution of species in the normal world, just like when Chen Jian plagiarized Hamlet, he removed those entanglements that could only be understood by the Christian cultural circle.