Chapter 1678: Mosingen departs again
As the governor in charge of managing Dongfan Island instead of Marin, Kong Tai recruited a group of literati who were unwilling in the Ming Dynasty to help him manage the island. 35xs
These are the scholars whose diplomas are the most talented, and are the kind of hopeless people who rely on others. If there is hope to be admitted to the lifter, they will not come to fight against Kong Tai.
You should know that in the Ming Dynasty, there was always the saying "Jin Juren, Yin Jinshi". Why is Juju being "Jin Juren"? In addition to being difficult to test, there is also a soaring status.
If you are admitted to the court, you can become an official. Moreover, there is no need to go to school. Although talented scholars are also famous, they still need to study in county, state, and prefecture. At the end of the year, we must also refer to the assessment. If you fail the test, you will be lowered. Even, if it's too bad, it may be deprived of the show talent.
Juju is different. Juju is itself half official, so you do n’t have to go to school. Even, you can go to counties and prefectures to learn something. In other words, Juju itself belongs to the civil class. The talents are still only reserve personnel. Seeing officials, they can only call themselves "students."
If you are successful, you are the self-employed in the civil service class of Ming Dynasty, so you do n’t have to worry about exams and punishment. Mainly do not die, all kinds of cool. Moreover, many people will deliberately contribute land to avoid servitude. (Commission is the most important means of blackmail by ancient officials. The real taxation is not much, especially in the Ming Dynasty)
Xiucai is different. Xiucai can only receive a limited amount of rice from the government every year, and there are very few people who can bless. Therefore, their lives are generally not generous. Unlike a person, you can live a very happy life just by giving land.
Just like Fan Jin, before Zhongju, he was a poor man. But once he got the shot, he immediately became Master Fan, and a lot of people gave him money.
Before the middle of the show, those talents, unless the original family background is good. Otherwise, it is still not ample. At most, it can only be considered better than that of the poor, which is similar to that of middle-sized farmers.
Therefore, many talents have to go out to make a living in order to live. For example, going to work as a teacher in a rural private school or something.
Some also traveled far away to work as officials for some officials, also known as masters or something.
Many civil servants are uncommon and belong to the silly type of reading and reading. When this kind of person first became an official, if he had ample resources, he would usually hire some old talents who were officials to help him handle the copywriting. Even the recruits and the old officials in the county competed for control.
Kong Tai was not very familiar with the affairs of China, and needed help to manage the recruited Ming refugees. Naturally, he recruited a group of Ming Dynasty talents. At this time, it is no problem to send one to the Guangdong Marine Master to offer advice. And these staff members are also happy to swallow this kind of credit so that they can get enough rewards from the new employers. In this way, Marin can pick himself clean.
With the fireboat tactics, the Ming Dynasty had no incentive to build big ships. In addition to defeating the Portuguese fleet, Daming's civil servants can use this example to refute-you see, what kind of ship? It burned with a fire and wasted money ...
As long as this battle can burn the Portuguese warships, then those who want to build ships can be pushed back by this sentence, and they can't be refuted. Where are the living examples? How to refute them?
Marlin, however, wanted an effect. Only when Da Ming, who is extremely manpower-rich, does not engage in big sailing, can Marin have a way of life. Otherwise, the Daming Empire, with a population of more than 100 million people, also went to sea to grab territory. How could Marin do it? If a natural disaster happens, millions of refugees can come out. How can it be compared? If millions of refugees were transported to the colonies, a civilized area would soon be created.
Although it shows that the Confucian civil servants in the DPRK had little interest in colonization or even hindered, it could not stand that there was a Zhengde emperor who liked to expand outwards in the Daming Empire.
Although Zhengde's attention is currently being drawn away by Mongolia, it would be hard to say if he had a real fire with the Portuguese and had a large fleet. Sure, Zhengde would let a certain **** make another Western mission. Once Daming opened his eyes to see the world, it would be great ...
Therefore, out of the interests of the North Sea, Marin never wanted the Ming Dynasty to build a large ship. The offer of fireboat tactics not only catered to the Ming Dynasty civil servants' way of thinking about solving their opponents by tricks, but also extinguished the Ming Dynasty's idea of building a large ship.
At that time, the goods of the Ming Dynasty had to be changed by themselves before they could be sold to Europe. The huge profits in the middle are also monopolized by themselves ...
In addition, if this battle can burn a few more Portuguese warships, it can also hit the Portuguese hard. After all, warship manufacturing is not easy and the cost is not low. It is not easy to train sailors and artillery on board. If it is lost, the Portuguese will vomit blood ...
After the Battle of Downs, Spain only lost more than 40 warships and lost its sea power. If the Portuguese lost a dozen or twenty warships this time, I am afraid it would be difficult to relieve their breath in a short time. At that time, it is time for Marin to play ...
Although the displacement of the warships sent by Portugal is only two or three hundred tons, it is incomparable in value to the Spanish's more than forty thousand-ton battleships. However, Portugal's national power is also incomparable with Spain more than a hundred years later.
In the 17th century, Spain, somehow, was supported by the golden mountains and silver seas of the Americas. It felt unbearable to lose more than 40 thousand-ton battleships. Portugal, a small and medium-sized country whose national strength is not strong at the moment, will lose its vitality if it loses a batch of battleships, and it will be difficult to recover in a short time.
At that time, Marin can take advantage of the opportunity to blackmail Portugal. For example, find a way to get South Africa ...
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No matter whether it is the Portuguese fleet under construction or the ships sent by Marin to report the news, it is impossible to reach the Eastern Ming Empire in a short time. By the time Marin gets the news next time, it is estimated that it will be a year or two later. Therefore, after arranging the related matters, Marin will temporarily ignore it.
Now, Marin has received the report from Ayoun colony. Governor Ayun Kedon reported that a group of slave cavalry purchased from Egypt was already in place. He selected 100 honest and obedient Egyptian slave cavalry trained by the Mamluk cavalry to prepare as the main **** force for this trip to Timbuktu.
In addition, Cotton also selected 20 reliable soldiers who were good at using muskets and proficient in horse riding and not afraid of hot and dry weather from the colonial army. They were all equipped with clockwork carbines sent by the locals. Go to Timbuktu together.
The reason why these musketeers were sent was because Marin was influenced by the movie "Dreams of Treasure Hunt" that he had seen in his last life-an Arab swordsman who had been using the beautiful sword technique for a long time Look. But Eastwood took out his revolver with a spare time, gave the Arab swordsman a shot, and directly killed a powerful swordsman ...
This plot is funny, but it illustrates the truth of "Kung Fu is better, one shot down."
The cottage version of the Mamluk cavalry, composed of 100 Egyptian slaves, was mainly used to guard against those jealous North African bearded merchants. The 20 gunmen who used a clockwork to fire a carbine were specifically used to deal with the kind of swordsman in North African Beard. No matter how subtle the swordsman approach is, I will send you to see God with only one shot ...
Moreover, the cold weapon team, if the martial arts strong people in the team are killed, the morale of the team is very serious.
These 20 gunmen are mainly used to deal with enemy masters at critical moments. At the same time, there are also missions to monitor the Egyptian slave cavalry.
Seeing that Ayoun was well prepared there, Marin directly approved the action plan there. The entire team will carry a large amount of fine, high-quality salt to Timbuktu to exchange local gold.
The one responsible for leading the team was Mosingen, who last led the team to Timbuktu. If Mosingen could successfully bring back thousands of pounds of gold this time, Marin would n’t mind giving him a noble title ...
On the side of Ayún, after receiving instructions from the Spanish transit pigeons, the team immediately set off. Mossingen took 100 Egyptian slave cavalry, 20 musketeers and a group of slaves. Everyone put on the marlins invented by Marin, took the camels and the bob horses, brought salt, enough fresh water and knives, and set foot On the journey to Timbuktu ...
