open sea

Chapter 437 High and Low
Old Pinto's face was not very good-looking.

Haojing Bishop Carneiro's complexion was not good either.

Chen Mu sat in the middle of the municipal square, his right thumb on the armrest of the chair slowly slid across his cheek, with a bad look on his face.

The flag soldiers standing around him opened up their vigilance, Haojing merchants gathered around the square, Ming people and foreigners mixed in, some adults raised children above their heads, many people came here not to see how Chen Mu would deal with it Human Traffickers.

They just came to see Chen Mu, and it was not easy to meet first-rank officials of the imperial court, let alone Chen Mu who often appeared in restaurants, fairy tales, and temples during overseas battles.

In order to interrogate this foreign businessman, Chen Mu waited in Haojing for a few days, and called his aide, Old Pinto, and Bishop Carneiro.

The matter is not complicated. Chen Mushang received a letter from Huang Dexiang when he was in Weigang, Nanyang. He was doing silk trade in Haojing. Three sailors armed resistance, was suppressed.

It wasn't human trafficking that brought Chen Mu here, it was because this person first claimed to be a merchant from Puyi and after verification, he was a merchant from Xiyi.

He simply thought that Carneiro might have colluded with the Spaniards, so he came here, but after he came, he interrogated and found something else hidden.

Although Carneiro was selected as a merchant, the actual selection of merchants was done by church teachers. According to the church's registration, the owner of the ship was indeed a Portuguese, but the owner was not the arrested Spaniard.

"General Chen, this man claims to be Portuguese, but he is not. Although he admits that he is Spanish, he is not."

Pinto's face was a bit embarrassed, and the reason for the embarrassment was nothing else. He collected all the words in his mind, but he didn't know how to explain this person's background to Chen Mu. After thinking for a long time, he said: "He was born in England, in the Before he went to sea, Philip was the king of England, so it is true that he is Spanish."

"But now Philip is not King of England, and he doesn't know it, because he has been at sea for many years."

Huang Dexiang, who was pressing the knife on the side, sneered at this. He didn't care which country he was from, or Chen Mu ordered him to ask clearly, and he would have killed him long ago.

This British man who thought he was a Spaniard disguised as a Portuguese was tied up and knelt on the ground by the flag army, and he kept yelling, speaking too fast, Chen Mu couldn't understand, which made Pinto's face even more ugly.

"He said that you are cannibals, and that someone told him that Ming people used to eat people during wars."

Old Pinto is really unwilling to repeat this sentence, who is the person in front of him?

It's Chen Mu!
Chen Mu who killed countless people!
Pinto did not wait for Chen Mu to open his mouth, and in order to calm his possible anger, he first explained: "People think that low-level people can be sold, and they can do whatever they want like Columbus... He is a criminal, general, and I suggest that he be executed."

Chen Mu didn't get angry. It's meaningless to get angry with the dead. He just nodded, frowning and wondering, because in his understanding, Columbus was a great navigator, and he even sighed why Zheng He couldn't be like Columbus. Achieve extraordinary achievements.

But when Chen Mu heard Columbus's name from Pinto's mouth, it was obviously derogatory.

"Cannibalism in times of war... They just ate gods, it's none of your business!" Chen Mu only saw the hypocrisy, he turned to Pinto and said, "Tell me about Columbus."

The Englishman was still yelling, and Chen Mu was confused and regretful. He thought about the scene where he met the British several times in his heart, but he didn't expect it to be like this.

"Decades ago, Columbus took the letter of credence given by the King of Spain to Emperor Dayuan, led a fleet of expeditions funded by Spain, raped women wherever he went, used nine-year-old and ten-year-old girls as currency, and killed the indigenous people with hounds, Satisfied the men with this, and happily wrote it down in the diary, but what the diary didn't say was that they brought the Spanish disease back to our land."

Pinto Sr. took off his glasses. "I aspired to these things when I was young, but now it makes me extremely ashamed."

ashamed?

Chen Mu really doesn't think there are a few Europeans who are ashamed of this from the bottom of their hearts. They won't be ashamed, and they won't be ashamed of it in 300 years.

"Bishop, he wears your necklace around his neck. Columbus is also a believer. Why would he do such a thing?"

What can Bishop Carneiro say? Could he tell Chen Mu that in the Iberian Peninsula, in Marseilles, in the Netherlands, in England, in all those places where people have been to Africa and America, people are scrambling to sell black slaves for themselves? Benefit?

Could it be that Columbus said in his diary that the Caribs were cannibals to reduce his guilt?

"General, even if a bad guy serves God, he still won't be protected by God, and he will go to hell." Canelo couldn't say that, he just looked into Chen Mu's eyes and said: "In the eyes of Columbus, people have ranks. They are inferior people, and so is what the general did."

"Go to hell? I didn't see him go to hell. He is alive and well. My people would have gone to hell if my bannermen hadn't caught him." Or Pinto, "There are good people everywhere and bad people, I understand that. But if my people die, what's the use of saying they'll go to heaven?"

"What's the use of a church if good people go to heaven when they die, and villains walk around alive?"

At first the Americans had gold, and the Europeans had the Bible; later, the Europeans had gold, and the Americans had the Bible.

This is why Chen Mu was angry, because Carneiro was right, people have ranks, and Chen Mu suddenly found that he was doing the same thing as the Europeans, and he also took away the gold from the Luzon people.

But his compatriots are not like this. They are kind, so kind that Zheng He went to the West to help countries with poor livelihoods, so kind that they were extremely restrained when they were attacked several times, and they were even so kind that others took out their own system and imposed it on them. Their descendants really believed the nonsense that they were the descendants of inferior people.

Even if he is a fool, as long as he finds a way to make an ordinary person stupid, he has enough experience in being a fool to defeat this ordinary person.

Chen Mu suddenly laughed, and he asked the bishop: "Bishop, do you think I am a high-level person or a low-level person?"

"I don't know mathematics, don't know philosophy, don't believe in religion, and don't know anything about art. Nine hundred out of a thousand people can write articles better than me." Chen Mu asked blankly without waiting for Canelo's answer: " I only have gold and silver, warships and cannons, and I can only set fire to kill people, so am I a high-level person or a low-level person?"

Chen Mu thinks that he is not a high-level person, but his compatriots must be high-level people. They are pawns and traffickers listening to operas, literati and poets sending landscapes. I often bury my head and take care of myself, and occasionally dream and help the world.

Bishop Carneiro opened his mouth slightly and didn't answer for a long time. Obviously this question was too difficult, so he paused for an answer that Chen Mu never expected.

He said: "A high-level person may not always be high, and a low-level person may not always be low. But general, whether you are a high-level person or a low-level person, this is philosophy."

(End of this chapter)