Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1216, The Unrepentant Jew

Li Feng, who was wearing a government official, looked at the Jews in front of him, and there was no big difference from the white slaves in his own plantation. Of course, it is said that Europeans can easily recognize Jews.

"According to His Royal Highness King Ning's will, the whole country of Ning must celebrate the New Year, all towns must hang lanterns, and every household must post Spring Festival couplets."

"In addition, every small town must hire teachers, set up academies, and learn my Chinese culture and etiquette. Every small town must use Ming characters and language."

Li Feng said to Brown and the Jews around him solemnly.

Hearing Li Feng's words, while Brown and the others breathed a sigh of relief, they also frowned.

It's not asking them for money, it's not extorting them, it's not restricting their actions and careers, etc.

You must know that in Europe, basically every country stipulates that Jews cannot own land, engage in certain occupations, own slaves, or have the right to litigate, etc. Therefore, most Jews can only rely on their own craftsmanship or do business. make ends meet.

This is why it is said that most of the Jews are businessmen, and they look very shrewd. In fact, they are all forced out, because no matter how rich they are, they cannot own a piece of land of their own. Piggy bank, whenever they want or need to, they come and loot the Jews.

When they came to Ningguo, they were finally allocated a piece of land that belonged to them. Every Jew couldn't help but knelt down and kissed this piece of land.

It was really not easy. For thousands of years, they wandered all over the world and never had a piece of land of their own, but now they have it.

They are afraid of losing this piece of land, although now it seems that this piece of land is still barren and has nothing to do with fertile land.

But this is the first piece of land they have owned in thousands of years.

They are also afraid that these Ming people will come to blackmail them just like the Europeans, and they are afraid of being targeted.

But this kind of worry is obviously unnecessary. In the eyes of Daming people, they are no different from white slaves at this moment, except that they are not slaves, but legal citizens of Ning country.

"My lord, we are willing to abide by the will of His Highness King Ning and abide by the laws of Ning Kingdom~"

"But please forgive me for asking, does this decree apply to all small towns?"

Brown and the surrounding Jews exchanged glances.

The Jews are the most stubborn nation. No matter where they go, they always maintain their own set of things, which is one of the reasons why they have been rejected by Europeans.

When they arrived in Ningguo, they naturally hoped to continue to maintain their own characteristics and traditions, but this is Ningguo after all, and learning the language and characters of the Ming people is necessary and necessary for survival, and it does not violate Jewish teachings and Tradition.

But hanging lanterns and posting couplets are the customs of the Ming people during the Spring Festival, which makes these Jews very repulsive. They don't want to celebrate the Spring Festival, even though the whole Ning country is now getting lively for the Spring Festival.

In some nearby towns and plantations, you can see festive red lanterns, Spring Festival couplets, etc. everywhere. Red Ming people seem to be festive, but for Jews, they don’t like red.

But this is the will of King Ning of Ningguo. Not to mention that they are newcomers, even if they have a firm foothold here, they cannot violate it. After they came here, they really realized the strength and vastness of Ningguo.

Ningguo has a huge territory in both the Tianzhu continent and the African continent. Ningguo's annual fiscal revenue exceeds five million taels of silver, and the annual food produced is enough to supply tens of millions of people.

Such a country is definitely a strong country in Europe.

However, Ning State is just a vassal state under the great Ming Empire. Compared with the great Ming Empire, Ning State is nothing at all.

There is no way to violate it, so it can only be obeyed, but Brown still wants to know whether this decree is against the will of the Jews.

"Nonsense, of course all towns must comply."

Upon hearing this, Li Feng said coldly, then got on his horse, turned around, and quickly left the small town of Safati.

"Mr. Brown, what shall we do?"

As soon as Li Feng left, the surrounding Jews gathered around Brown one after another, all of them looked anxious.

"Everyone, don't worry, don't worry~"

"As far as I know, this Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Ming people. There is even a law in the Ming Empire that stipulates that the entire country has a [-]-day holiday during the Spring Festival. From this, it can be seen that they have great respect for this festival. attention."

"Ningguo is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and almost all systems are the same as those of the Ming Empire. It is normal to attach importance to the Spring Festival."

Brown looked at the crowd, thought for a while and said: "Frank, Barani, you two are ready, come with me to Chixia City, let's inquire about the news, and buy lanterns and Spring Festival couplets by the way."

"Ok~"

Frank and Barani both nodded quickly.

"Everyone go get busy."

"It's hard for us to own our own land. We should cherish it well. Now we will reclaim the wasteland so that we can plant farms in the coming year."

Brown looked at the worried people around him, and comforted him.

It has been about half a year since they came here, and the people of Daming give them the feeling that they are very proud and confident. When they look at them, their eyes are full of contempt, and they seem to look down on them very much.

Later they learned that in the plantations of the Ming people, there were basically a large number of slaves from Europe. The Ming people called these white-skinned slaves white slaves, while the dark-skinned slaves were black slaves. The indigenous people are called Kunlun slaves.

There are a lot of people in Chixia City, but most of them are slaves. There are not many people who have obtained the status of free and legal citizens. Only people from the Ming Dynasty, Koreans, Japanese and other oriental people are legal citizens.

Almost all other whites were slaves, and they, the Jews, were the only whites with legal citizenship.

Soon, a carriage of this type drove Brown, Frank and Barani slowly towards Chixia City.

Along the way, Brown, Frank and Barani are observing everything along the way.

The Jews survived by income and business. This instinct has almost been integrated into their blood, making it easy for them to survive in a new place and quickly rely on business to accumulate a lot of wealth.

And all of this depends on a pair of eyes with keen insight.

"The Ming people's plantations are all spices, sugar cane and tea. Spices are very valuable in Europe, but they are very cheap here in Ningguo. Sugar cane should be used to boil sugar, and the price of sugar in European countries is also very expensive. Tea is also very popular in Europe, but it is said that Ming people themselves are the ones who drink tea the most.”

Frank took a notebook and took detailed records.

"Maybe in the future we can sell the tea, sugar, and spices here to Europe."

Barani seemed a little excited and said that when he came here, he seemed to have quickly discovered a business opportunity to sell these things from Ningguo to Europe, because he clearly knew the huge price difference between the two places.

“A good idea”

Old Brown smiled and shook his head: "However, first of all, you need to grasp the business situation of Ningguo and all the surrounding vassal states and colonies. The Ming people's business is extremely prosperous, and the wealth of their merchants is far beyond our imagination. "

"In terms of business, we Jews are the best."

Barani said very confidently.

Chatting while walking, the scale of the plantations here is very large, and each of the huge plantations is even far away from each other. Obviously, the land here is sparsely populated, and there is a lot of land that is too late to cultivate , can only be temporarily barren.

After almost an hour, they finally arrived at another small town, a small town named Xinxiang. Like Safati Town, Xinxiang Town is one of the many small towns under the jurisdiction of Chixia City.

However, in this new township, the people living here are very complicated, such as Tianzhu people, Burmese people, Siamese people, Nanyang people, Korean people, Japanese people, Turkic people, etc., are very mixed.

"In Xinxiang Township, lanterns have been hung up and Spring Festival couplets have been pasted up."

Frank looked at the streets of Xinxiang, and saw that every household hung up red lanterns and pasted Spring Festival couplets, which looked very festive, and even the sound of fireworks and firecrackers could be heard from time to time.

"Hmm~"

Brown nodded, he was observing carefully.

He found that whether they were Indians, Siamese, Burmese, or Turkic people, they not only hung red lanterns and posted Spring Festival couplets, but also their clothes, hair, beard, etc., were all learning from Ming people.

Their hair is short, their beards are shaved off, and they wear Ming people’s clothing. They all speak Ming people’s language. Although some people’s Ming language is not very good, they all speak Ming people, and they use Ming people to buy and sell things. currency, silver dollars, silver bills, and copper coins.

Although it can be seen at a glance that they are not from Daming, the influence of the Ming Empire is everywhere. Almost everyone, no matter where they come from, must learn everything from Daming, including every aspect of food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Brown was looking at the people around him, and the people around him looked at Brown, Frank and Barani in surprise.

"Whose white slave is this coming out alone?"

"Still wearing the clothes of European barbarians, how many clothes are you willing to change for slaves?"

"I'm still wearing a hat in this hot weather, isn't it hot?"

"Yeah, I don't cut my hair or shave my beard. The smell on my body is too strong. I guess I didn't use soap in the shower."

"Their masters are really picky!"

"That's right, that's right~"

(End of this chapter)