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Chapter 1442 Thoughtful

It's hard to say, but it's actually easy to do, because Muye soldiers can read and write, and the Eastern Banner soldiers all have certain writing and numeracy skills.

Soon a government servant directly under the prefect of London was drawn from various troops. This armed force had a complex composition, including cooks and military doctors from the Eastern Army, Spanish veterans with severed hands, and Makino's tribal geniuses.

The cook was Liu Zhi, who had just worked as a landowner in the suburbs of London for half a month, and was recruited by a general's order. The reason he never expected was because of his little cook Belle.

Tang Xianzu needed someone who was willing to do things, could barely understand Chinese, and could communicate proficiently with the people of London.

There are actually many such people. In Tang Xianzu's team, there are three retired Spanish veterans who can meet his requirements.

One of them is Fei Laosan, a Spanish sword and shield infantry soldier. He was selected as a government servant because he was born as a minor noble artillery soldier.

Fei Laosan followed Yang Ce to resist the Scottish army in the battle in the north, and his right arm was injured when he jumped into the enemy's line. Now the bone is splinted and hung around his neck by the military doctor, and he will use his left hand sword in the future.

Although the Spanish swordsmen all practice two-handed swords, right-handed long swords and left-handed short swords, and there is no delay in combat skills, but the most elite sword-shield infantry obviously can't use him. It just so happens that he also hopes to follow the Ming army. It became the yamen servants in London.

In Fei Laosan's words: "The language of the English is the servant of Latin, a vulgar and crude barbarian language that anyone can master—but there is no need to master it."

When Tang Xianzu looked puzzled, Fei Laosan laughed and wrote two "barbarians" while talking.

He first spoke the Latin word for foreigners, writing it as 'barbaros', and then said the word in English, writing it as 'barbarian'.

Regardless of facial expression or tone of voice, he couldn't hide his disdain, and said: "Look, it's like a child copied the wrong word. This word was originally called by the Romans, and they called Ireland by this... No, it's Ai. Brother Lan."

The English of this era, Fei Laosan said it appropriately, if there is a comparison, it is the Chinese before the Tang and Song ancient prose movement, before the Wei, Jin and Jian'an literature, and even before the Book of Songs appeared.

But in fact, the "foreigners" in the Roman population was actually used to refer to the Spaniards at the earliest.

The word itself is no different from Yidi and Fanyi. The English use this word to call the Irish, just like the Japanese use "Southern Barbarians" to call Westerners.

But for Tang Xianzu, he was very interested in this word. He walked through the streets and alleys in the city of London, shouting and saying with a smile: "Balabala people? Interesting, that is to say, I can't understand their language. I don't know where Balabala is. Say something."

Almost every Spaniard can roughly understand what the English are saying, but there is one thing Fei Laosan can’t do. He is not an Englishman, and he doesn’t understand the habits, customs, and preferences of the local people. Native people can do it.

But just a little inquiry, Tang Xianzu knew that there was Liu Zhi in the Eastern Army in London. An English little cook called the Tailor's Daddy.

It didn't take much effort to transfer them here. The place where Liu Zhi was was not critical. Although the farm was doing well, it was obviously more important to be with Tang Xianzu.

As soon as Liu Zhi came over, Tang Xianzu took a fancy to him and thought he was his master's candidate.

When it comes to masters, subordinates should not be mentioned. In Daming, subordinates are locals with little knowledge, who have key connections and skills in governing the locality. Officials do not serve as officials in their household registration. People assist and contact subordinate staff.

The person to contact is Master.

In this era, the master is not professional enough, not an actual job, similar to a disciple.

Because most of them are unsatisfactory literati, generally speaking, they have the basic functions of criminal names, money grains, and book seals, and some can perform auxiliary duties such as enlistment, accountant, review, calligraphy, and registration.

In Tang Xianzu's needs, these literary and ink affairs can be taken second. In this wild land that is still in war, it is impossible to have no reliable warriors around.

Liu Zhi came to London with the style of carrying a gun on his shoulders, a knife on his waist, and two palm mines hanging on his chest. Looking at his footsteps like the wind, you can tell that he is a martial artist, but he has the appearance of a master, shouting and hugging.

Regardless of the local natives or the faces of Ming people, they all center on him, and he is obviously a figure who has won the hearts of the people.

"Your Majesty, these are rich and rural gentry in the outskirts of the city. They don't know the etiquette. We have to bring them here to greet you. The leader is Zhao En, the owner of the local timber shop. He has prepared more than [-] coffins for the Heavenly Army. humble."

Tang Xianzu looked at a group of merchants and listened to Liu Zhi's introduction one by one. There were owners of wood workshops, iron workshops, and leather workshops, as well as bannermen who were the leaders of various farms.

The composition of the personnel is not complicated, and it is difficult to get rid of it now. All the workshops that can be opened are related to the military, and the civilian things are still closed. After all, Ying Ming and other officers were in charge of the military and civilian power before. They only care about fighting other things. in spite of.

Therefore, most of the workshop owners who opened it were native people, and the manor owners who controlled the land were all Eastern Banner Army and Muye camp soldiers.

However, this timber merchant named Zhao En is worthy of Tang Xianzu's attention, because Liu Zhi said to him in a low voice: "At present, the amount of timber is huge. The land has stabilized the hearts of the people, and it is doing well now.”

This is very important.

Chen Mu had a special meeting with Tang Xianzu before he took office, and told him in detail the position of the military government for this position.

Not only must the jurisdiction be renewed during the term of office, but the household registration, taxation, money grain, relief, payment and settlement of prison lawsuits that regular officials need to supervise, as well as the very important shipment of assets and goods.

In short, it is necessary to manage, restrain, secure the people, and develop, but also to send goods to the Eastern military government. How to send goods in large quantities?Mining, deforestation, replacing currency with Tongbao.

The first two are easy, and the last one is the most difficult. Tang Xianzu couldn't figure out how the local people were willing to use Tongbao. He even made preparations to forcefully promote Tongbao in two or three years, but he didn't expect that this matter had already started.

It sounds like...the people don't object.

Zhao En is a standard 'Balabara man', he yelled at Liu Zhi for a long time, and then told Tang Xianzu through Liu Zhi's translator: "As long as merchants accept Tongbao, especially theaters, as long as the tickets for theaters that only need a loaf of bread start With Tongbao, the whole of London will soon be occupied by Tongbao."

Tang Xianzu narrowed his eyes and asked, "Theatre, what is that?"

Liu Zhi raised his face and pondered for a moment, then pursed his lips and made a thoughtful conclusion.

"The play garden."

(End of this chapter)