As the governor of Marin to manage Dongfan Island, Kong Tai recruited a group of literati who were unsuccessful in the Ming Dynasty to help him manage Taidao.
These are scholars who have at most scholars who have diplomas, and they rely on juren who have no hope. If they have the hope of passing the juren, they will not come to attack Kong Tai.
You should know that in the Ming Dynasty, there was always the saying "Jin Juren, Yin Jinshi". Why is it said that Juren is "Jin Juren"? In addition to the difficulty in taking Juren, there is also the ascension in status.
After being admitted to the Juren, it means you can become an official. Moreover, you don’t have to go to school anymore. Although scholars are also fame, they still need to continue studying in county, county, and government schools. At the end of the year, you have to refer to the assessment. If you fail the exam, you will be reduced. Even if you are too bad, you may be deprived of the scholar’s ​​fame.
Juren is different. Even if he is half an official, he doesn't have to study anymore. He can even go to the county or state to study as a teacher. In other words, Juren is a civil servant class. A scholar is just a reserve member. When he sees an official, he can only call himself "student".
If you pass the Juren, you are the ones in the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, so you don’t have to worry about exam problems and punishments. You are mainly not willing to commit suicide, and you will be happy. Moreover, many people will deliberately contribute land to avoid corvee. (Corvee was the main means for officials to extort the people in ancient times. There were not many real taxes, especially in the Ming Dynasty.)
The scholars are different. They can only receive limited rice and grain from the government every year, and there are very few people who can protect them, and at most they can avoid their relatives from being exempted from labor service. Therefore, their lives are generally not well-off. Unlike juren, they can live a very happy life just by relying on the land they donated.
Just like Fan Jin, before he passed the imperial examination, he was a poor scholar. But once he passed the imperial examination, he immediately became Mr. Fan, and there were a lot of people who gave him money and land.
Before passing the imperial examination, those scholars were not considered well-off unless they were originally from good families. At most, they could only be considered better than poor people and similar to middle-aged farmers' families.
Therefore, many scholars also have to go out to make a living for life. For example, they go to a rural private school to be a teacher, or something, and at least make a living.
Some people also travel far away and serve as staff to some officials, commonly known as masters or something.
Many civil servants do not work in a common way and are stupid in their studies. When such people first become officials, if they have enough money, they will generally hire some old scholars who have become officials and staff to help them handle copywriting. They even provide advice on competing with the old officials in the county for control.
Kong Tai was not very familiar with the affairs of China and needed someone to help manage the recruitment of Ming refugees, so he naturally recruited a group of Ming Dynasty scholars. At this time, he sent one to the Guangzhou Navy to offer a plan, and there was no problem. These aides were happy to swallow such credit, so that they could get enough rewards from the new employer. In this way, Malin could pick himself up completely.
With the fire ship tactic, the Ming Dynasty court had no motivation to create a large ship. In addition to defeating the Portuguese fleet, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty could use this example to refute - you see, what kind of ship should be built? It burned a fire and wasted money...
As long as this battle can burn the Portuguese warships, those who want to build the ship will be pushed back by this sentence, and they cannot be refuted. Where can the living examples be placed? How to refute it?
What Marin wants is an effect. Only when the Ming Dynasty, which has a very abundant manpower, does not engage in a large voyage, can Marin have a way out. Otherwise, the Ming Empire with a population of over 100 million will also go out to sea to grab territory. How can Marin do it? Any natural disaster can lead to millions of refugees. How can we compare? If millions of refugees are transported to the colonies, we can soon create another civilized area.
Although it means that the Confucian civil servants in the dynasty had no interest in colonization and would even pull themselves back, they could not resist the Ming Empire's existence, Zhengde Emperor, who liked to expand externally.
Although Zhengde's attention has been attracted by Mongolia, it is hard to say if he fights the Portuguese and creates a large fleet. Maybe Zhengde will ask a certain eunuch to go to the West or something. Once the Ming Dynasty opens its eyes to the world, it will be amazing...
Therefore, for the interests of the Beihai Kingdom, Marin never wanted the Ming Dynasty to build a large ship. The fire ship tactics not only catered to the Ming Dynasty's thinking that civil servants liked to solve their opponents by relying on strategies, but also eliminated the Ming Dynasty's idea of ​​building a large ship.
At that time, the goods from the Ming Dynasty must be sold to Europe by themselves. The huge profits in the middle will be monopolized by themselves...
In addition, if a few more Portuguese warships could be burned in this battle, it would also be able to hit the Portuguese heavily. After all, it was not easy to build warships and the cost was not low. The sailors and artillery on the ship were not easy to train. If it was lost, the Portuguese would vomit blood...
After the Battle of Towns, Spain lost its maritime power by only more than forty warships. If the Portuguese lost more than twenty warships this time, it would be difficult for them to recover in a short period of time. At that time, it will be time for Marin to perform...
Although the displacement of the warships sent by Portugal is only two or three hundred tons, it is incomparable to the value of the Spanish more than 40 thousand-ton warships. However, Portugal's national strength is incomparable to Spain more than a hundred years later.
Spain in the 17th century had at least a sea of ​​gold and silver in the Americas as support, and even the loss of more than 40 thousand-ton warships could not stand it. However, if Portugal, a small and medium-sized country with a weak national strength, loses a group of warships, its vitality will definitely be severely damaged and it will be difficult to recover in a short period of time.
At that time, Marin can take the opportunity to blackmail Portugal. For example, find a way to get South Africa over...
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Whether it is the Portuguese fleet that is being formed or the ships sent by Marin to inform the news, they will not be able to reach the Ming Empire in the East in a short time. When Marin gets the news next time, it will probably be one or two years later. Therefore, after arranging the relevant matters, Marin will not care for the time being.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Now, Marin has received a report from the Ayuen colony. Governor Cotton of Ayuen reported that a batch of slave cavalry purchased from Egypt had been in place. He selected 100 honest and obedient Egyptian slave cavalry trained by Mamluk cavalry to prepare to be the main escort force to Timbuktu this time.
In addition, Cotton also selected 20 reliable soldiers from the colonial army who were good at using muskets and proficient in riding horses and were not afraid of dry and hot weather. They were all equipped with clockwork ignition carbines sent from the local area and went to Timbuktu with the camels.
The reason for sending these musketeers was that Marin was influenced by the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" that he had watched in his previous life - an Arab swordsman who had been playing with his beautiful swordsmanship for a long time and looked very powerful. But Eastwood took out his revolver leisurely, shot the Arab swordsman, and directly killed a powerful swordsman...
Although this plot is funny, it explains the truth that "no matter how good the kung fu is, it will be knocked down with one shot."
The copycat Mamluk cavalry composed of 100 Egyptian slaves was mainly used to guard against those jealous North African bearded merchants. The 20 gunmen who used clockwork to ignite carbines were specially used to deal with the kind of swordsmen with high martial arts skills in North African beards. No matter how exquisite the swordsman's swordsman's swordsmanship is, I will send you to Allah with just one shot...
Moreover, if a person with high martial arts skills in the cold weapon team is killed, it will be a very serious blow to the morale of the team.
These 20 gunmen are mainly used to deal with the enemy's masters at critical moments. At the same time, they also have tasks to monitor those Egyptian slave cavalry.
Seeing that Ayuen was well prepared, Marin directly approved the action plan there. The entire team will carry a large amount of fine high-quality salt to Timbuktu and exchange local gold.
The person in charge of leading the team was Mosingen, who led the team to Timbuktu last time. If Mosingen could bring back thousands of pounds of gold this time, Marin wouldn't mind giving him a noble title...
Chapter completed!