open sea

Chapter 1226

People say that knowledge is harder to inherit than wealth, but sometimes it isn't.

In fact, before the birth of compulsory education, knowledge was generally easier to inherit than wealth, especially after compulsory education.

Of course, this compulsory education refers to the seventh year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty, when the long-term war ended, Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan issued the "Ordering the States to Send the Ming Jingzhao" order: states, counties and townships, each ordered to set up schools.

It was from this year that the basic education in ancient China re-rooted at the grassroots level. The public schools sponsored by the government covered the whole country with a scale of [-] households, and the matching imperial examination selection system was finally perfected.

At that time, there were only two kinds of people who held power in the world, one was the nobles who were born to be in power, and the other was the bureaucrats who were educated and came to power. Compared with those who were in business and had wealth, they had no political rights. Which one was better? Inheritance speaks for itself.

Outside of China, from the perspective of nobles, the easiest thing to inherit is blood, which means monopolizing and inheriting knowledge; within China, the easiest thing to inherit is also knowledge.

In the world outside of ancient China, this is precisely the positive significance of the emergence of religion—it broke the feudal aristocracy’s monopoly on knowledge, allowing common people to talk freely with the aristocrats through theology, and the scope of selection for the ruling class was expanded, becoming a class breaker. main promotion channel.

Brother Zuo has always envied Ren Ping's calm and breezy temperament. He never complained when he was sunk by a warship while sailing on a boat; Empty, but still have extraordinary self-confidence, firmly believe that I can start all over again and turn it into reality through action.

The confidence he envied came from the knowledge in his brain.

Ren Ping told him that wealth can be burned, but as long as the person who is the carrier of knowledge is not dead, even if he has nothing, as long as he has time, he can stand up again soon.

Later, brother Zuo met many people from Ming Dynasty. On the sea route from Luzon to South Asia, on the way of selling and bartering in Changsheng, and of course in the process of receiving Ming merchants in Lima, those experiences let him know that Ren Ping Not a god, he is just a very ordinary Daming sea merchant.

So on the first day of the chaos, he distributed the belongings to the workers, allowed them to rob everything in the store, and personally burned down the store door. Then he took his sister and nephew and fled upstairs... The upstairs used to be where the workers lived The house downstairs has food and water for seven workers who survived the disaster.

After getting through it, with the things in his mind, Xiao Zuo firmly believed that he could start again like Ren Ping.

But just last night, perhaps when Xiao Zuo opened the window, the nobles hiding across the street discovered that the arrival of four unexpected guests, the master and the servant, suddenly caused a shortage of water and food, which was already stretched.

"Where are you going?"

Xiao Zuo and his sister had met that noble lady in the past. Her husband was from Mesta in the Iberian Peninsula, that is, a livestock nobleman. He came to the New World the year before last to open up a pasture to raise Merino sheep. He died of smallpox within three months. Since there is no son, the ranch has become the wife's property, but the lady has no intention of managing it and selling it, and enjoys herself in the city all day long.

In the past, when buying clothes in the store, she always looked arrogant, thinking that all mixed races and aborigines are inferior people, and they are not even worthy of talking to her.

Even in this small room that was so cramped that she could smell the Arabian perfume on her body, she still stubbornly whispered the order to the servant first, and then the servant conveyed it.

If it weren't for worrying about her yelling or being stabbed in the center by the old retired guard, Xiao Zuo would have kicked them out a long time ago, and he didn't want to talk to them at all.

But she could see that Little Brother Zuo had prepared a bag and made a flag, which looked very much like the flag of a Ming merchant ship hanging on the mast.

"Daming District."

Xiao Zuo glanced at it, continued to count his backpack, and after making sure that all the items were still there, he raised his head and said to them: "We will leave tonight, you can walk with me... It is not easy to walk through the Armed Forces Square .”

The Plaza de Armas has now become the base camp for the Incas and the mixed-race people who joined them. It is even possible that a group of aboriginal slave laborers will have a rest at night next to them. This is something that no one can say.

"No, we won't go there with you, it doesn't matter if you go now-food and water, stay."

It's as if he regards himself as the master.

Water and food are not important, not to mention that this is a nobleman's request, Xiao Zuo brother has no reason to refuse, he is just strange.

"Every day, the governor sends at least three teams of cavalry to gallop on the street to protect the nobles and go to Daming District. It is far easier than ordinary people like us, so why?"

Little Brother Zuo didn't know how to describe the current situation. Ren Ping had taught him not to make people feel uncomfortable.

How to say?The noble lady huddled with him in the mouse hole, and asked him for water and food?
"Mind your own business, we won't go to Daming District."

This kind of reaction made Little Zuo even more curious. Almost every day, there are Spanish light cavalry passing through the streets. The cavalry in groups need not be afraid of any robbers. There are no enemies in Lima.

They are responsible for taking the nobles to the Daming District for examination, where they will be checked over and over again by the military doctors of the Ming Dynasty like animals, and they will be stamped with blue stamps on their wrists until they are confirmed to have no symptoms of disease, and then put into the Ming army's jurisdiction. protected area, and then await the ship that will carry them.

Brother Zuo didn’t think they didn’t go to Daming District because they were afraid of being tested, because even if they were found to be sick, it didn’t matter, they would just be stamped with a red stamp and placed in the quarantine area in the north, where those with Xie Lao disease lived. , Those with smallpox live on the other side.

At this time, you can see the benefits of Xie Lao disease. At least people with this disease can get on the ship, but smallpox may not be able to get on the ship.

Obviously, the Ming army is not afraid of smallpox, which is a very enviable ability.

In fact, this is also the reason why Brother Zuo had to go to Daming District. Both the Ming and Western armies were unable to blockade Lima City, which would allow smallpox patients from outside to enter the city. The Ming army is not afraid of smallpox, they are.

They were terrified to death.

"You'd better go to Daming District too. Many people died in the city. Someone told me that if there are too many dead people, if you don't deal with it properly, there will be a plague. Only Daming is not afraid of this, even if there is no plague... A young and beautiful woman like you It's not safe in the city either."

What Xiao Zuo always thought of was the words he said casually, but the noble lady said: "Your sword belongs to the Ming army, and that flag is the flag of the Ming Dynasty merchant ship. If you let me enter There is no need to leave Lima for the Ming army station, and I can give you a lot of money."

"Those ships couldn't get me back to Iberia."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)